enabling : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: enabling	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for enabling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enabling adj providing legal power or sanction; "an enabling resolution"; "enabling power" Antonym(s): disabling, disqualifying
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Enable \En*a"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enabled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Enabling}.] 1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. [Obs.] [bd]Who hath enabled me.[b8] --1 Tim. i. 12. Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow. Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. --Addison.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
enabling {software enabling}