Usually means: Capacity to perform a task.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word ability:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. -ability, ability: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -ability, ability: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ability: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -ability, ability: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ability: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ability, ability: Wordnik
  7. -ability, ability: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -ability, ability: Wiktionary
  9. -ability, ability: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ability, ability (-ibility): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ability: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ability, -ability, ability: Dictionary.com
  13. -ability, ability: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ability: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ability (Fringe), Ability (disambiguation), Ability (magazine), Ability (manhwa), Ability: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ability: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ability: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ability: Rhymezone
  19. ability: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ability: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ability: Free Dictionary
  22. ability: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ability: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. ability: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. -ability: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. ability: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ability: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ability: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ability: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. ability: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ability: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) Suitableness.
noun:  (uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.
noun:  The legal wherewithal to act.
noun:  (now limited to Scotland dialects) Physical power.
noun:  (archaic) Financial ability.
noun:  (uncountable) A unique power of the mind; a faculty.
noun:  (countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.

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