(capabilities)
1.
If you have the ~ or the capabilities to do something, you have the ability or the qualities that are necessary to do it.
People experience differences in physical and mental ~ depending on the time of day...
The standards set four years ago in Seoul will be far below the athletes’ capabilities now.
= ability
N-VAR: with supp, oft adj N, N to-inf
2.
A country’s military ~ is its ability to fight in a war.
Their military ~ has been reduced because their air force has proved not to be effective...
N-VAR: with supp, usu adj N, N to-inf