<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the quality of being competent; adequacy; possession of required skill, knowledge, qualification, or capacity: He hired her because of her competence as an accountant.</li><li>an income sufficient to furnish the necessities and modest comforts of life.</li><li>sufficiency; a sufficient quantity.</li><li>legal capacity or qualification based on the meeting of certain minimum requirements of age, soundness of mind, citizenship, or the like.</li><li>the sum total of possible developmental responses of any group of blastemic cells under varied external conditions.</li><li>the implicit, internalized knowledge of a language that a speaker possesses and that enables the speaker to produce and understand the language.</li><li>immunocompetence.</li><li>the ability of a fluid medium, as a stream or the wind, to move and carry particulate matter, measured by the size or weight of the largest particle that can be transported.</li></ul>