enabling

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

providing legal power or sanction“an enabling resolution”“enabling power”

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power.— Jer. Taylor.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.— Addison.[1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

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)