Meaning of competent in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

adjective

• Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.

  Example: He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.

• Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.

  Example: For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.

• Adequate for the purpose

• (of a cell wall) Permeable to foreign DNA.

• Resistant to deformation or flow.