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capable [ ca·pa·ble ]
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1. (capable of doing something) Having the ability, fitness, or quality necessary to do or achieve a specified thing.
the aircraft is capable of flying 5, 000 miles non-stop
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2. Open to or admitting of something.
It's insanely dense too, with each scene capable of being read in any number of ways.
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3. Able to achieve efficiently whatever one has to do; competent.
All credit to Wigan, they played well today and they are a very capable team.
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1. Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘able to take in’, physically or mentally): from French, from late Latin capabilis, from Latin capere ‘take or hold’.
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