{
  "id": "able.capacity",
  "term": "able",
  "sense": "capacity",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 20,
  "arena": "able",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "has ability",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "ability.capacity",
      "possible.potential"
    ],
    "interaction": "when ability and possible are together, something can do",
    "novel_properties": [
      "capacity to act",
      "potential for success"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit at 7.66 km/s despite atmospheric drag using periodic reboosts from docked spacecraft.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Cyanobacteria split water to extract electrons, sustaining metabolism in Earth's early anoxic environments over 3 billion years ago.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Federal Reserve adjusts interest rates to modulate inflation and unemployment within target ranges set by its dual mandate.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "able",
    "ably"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-able.capacity"
}