COMPETENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does competence mean? 

• COMPETENCE (noun)
  The noun COMPETENCE has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

  Familiarity information: COMPETENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPETENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

competence; competency

Hypernyms ("competence" is a kind of...):

ability (the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "competence"):

fitness (the quality of being qualified)

linguistic competence ((linguistics) a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language (contrasted with linguistic performance))

proficiency (the quality of having great facility and competence)

Antonym:

incompetence (lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications)

Derivation:

competent (properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient)

 Context examples 

IFITM1 Protein appears to demarcate germ cells from somatic neighbors and to mark the onset of germ cell competence.

(Interferon-Induced Transmembrane Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Children of obese fathers were more likely to fail measures of social competence, and those born to extremely obese couples also were more likely to fail tests of problem solving ability.

(Parental obesity linked to delays in child development, National Institutes of Health)

The subphases of G1 include competence, entry (G1a), progression (G1b), and assembly (G1c), based on the effects of limiting growth factors, nutrients, or inhibitors.

(G1 Phase Process, NCI Thesaurus)

The depth of knowledge and competence in advanced clinical practice and diabetes skills affords an increased complexity of decision making, which expands the traditional discipline specific practice.

(Diabetes Management Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

Reflects education and training, professional qualifications and competence, and ethical conduct consistent with standards established by the College.

(Fellow of American College of Physicians, NCI Thesaurus)

We work according to recommendations, from the Council or the Commission, because it still falls under national competence.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

He was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire upon a handsome competence.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

YOUR competence and MY wealth are very much alike, I dare say; and without them, as the world goes now, we shall both agree that every kind of external comfort must be wanting.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

G1 subphases include competence, entry (G1a), progression (G1b), and assembly (G1c), based on effects of limiting growth factors, nutrients, or inhibitors.

(Negative Regulation of G0 to G1 Transition, NCI Thesaurus)

A healthcare professional or scientist with knowledge and competence in health physics including but not limited to nuclear medicine, radiotherapy, radiology and various aspects of physiological monitoring and investigation.

(Medical Physicist, NCI Thesaurus)