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Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
- He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.
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Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
- For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.
- judicial authority having competent jurisdiction
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Adequate for the purpose.
- For if they [birds] had been Viviparous, the burthen of their womb, if they had brought forth any competent number at a time, had been ſo big and heavy, that their wings would have failed them, and ſo every body would have had the wit to ca
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Functionally in order; functioning adequately.
- a competent sphincter; a competent cervix; a competent immune system
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Permeable to foreign DNA.
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Resistant to deformation or flow.
ant. incompetent