Capability vs. Competence — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Capability and Competence
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Capability
The power or ability to do something
The company's capability to increase productivity
He had an intuitive capability of bringing the best out in people
Competence
The ability to do something well or efficiently.
Capability
The quality of being capable; ability.
Competence
A range of skill or ability
A task beyond his competence.
Capability
Often capabilities A talent or ability that has potential for development or use
A student of great capabilities.
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Competence
A specific ability or skill
A surprising competence in dealing with animals.
Capability
The capacity to be used, treated, or developed for a specific purpose
Nuclear capability.
Competence
(Law) The quality or condition of being legally qualified or fit to perform an act.
Capability
The power or ability to generate an outcome
Competence
(Microbiology) The ability of bacteria to be genetically transformable.
Capability
(computing) A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.
Competence
(Medicine) The ability to respond immunologically to bacteria, viruses, or other antigenic agents.
Capability
The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability.
A capability to take a thousand views of a subject.
Competence
(Linguistics) The knowledge that enables one to speak and understand a language.
Capability
Capacity of being used or improved.
Competence
Sufficient means for a comfortable existence.
Capability
The quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally;
He worked to the limits of his capability
Competence
(uncountable) The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
Capability
The susceptibility of something to a particular treatment;
The capability of a metal to be fused
Competence
(countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task or skill.
Capability
An aptitude that may be developed
Competence
(linguistics) The system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language, as opposed to its actual use in concrete situations (performance), cf. linguistic competence.
Competence
(dated) A sustainable income.
Competence
The legal authority to deal with a matter.
Competence
(geology) The degree to which a rock is resistant to deformation or flow.
Competence
The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.
The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause.
To make them act zealously is not in the competence of law.
Competence
Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,Lie in three words - health, peace, and competence.
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
Competence
Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.
Competence
The quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually, especially possession of the skill and knowledge required (for a task).
Competence
The quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
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