enabling

enabling
    adj 1: providing legal power or sanction; "an enabling
           resolution"; "enabling power" [ant: {disabling},
           {disqualifying}]
    

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.] "Who hath enabled me." --1 Tim. i. 12.
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            Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles,
            when he enabled them with priestly power. --Jer.
                                                  Taylor.
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   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.
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            Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables
            her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
                                                  --Addison.
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software enabling
enabling

   <programming> (Or "enabling") Modification of the design or
   implementation of software to allow {internationalisation} to
   take place.

   In particular, enabling may refer to the modification of
   software to support double-byte character sets, hence
   "{Unicode} enabling" and "double-byte enabling".

   (1999-06-28)