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countable and uncountable, plural capabilities
the power or ability to generate an outcome examples
(computing) A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control. quotations examples
Enforcing a security policy means controlling the rights users can acquire to data. In a capability machine, a user’s rights are defined by the capabilities he (or a process acting on his behalf) can obtain and the access rights conferred by those capabilities.
1987 November, Richard Y. Kain, Carl E. Landwehr, “On Access Checking in Capability-Based Systems”, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, volume SE-13, number 2, pages 202–207