Usually means: Provides means to make possible.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. enables: Merriam-Webster
  2. enables: Collins English Dictionary
  3. enables: Vocabulary.com
  4. Enables, enables: Wordnik
  5. enables: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. enables: Wiktionary
  7. enables: Dictionary.com
  8. enables: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. enables: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enables: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enables: Encyclopedia

(Note: See enable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (enable)

verb:  To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
verb:  To affirm; to make firm and strong.
verb:  To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
verb:  To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
verb:  To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
verb:  (electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
verb:  (chiefly electronics, computing) To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
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