The phrase "ability to piece" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the capability to assemble or combine elements, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "Her ability to piece together the puzzle impressed everyone at the party."
Alternatives: "skill to assemble" or "capability to combine".
Some Europeans, too, sensed vulnerabilities in Washington's ability to piece together the redrawn jigsaw.
But the campaign is suddenly bracing for new questions about Mr. Romney's ability to piece together a coalition needed to move closer to a general election fight with President Obama.
Mr. Murcia said he grew fascinated by Mr. Maughan's ability to piece together a brand covering a wide range of products, and to convince an army of independent contractors that they could grow rich selling them.
The ability to piece together phrases in different combinations provides unlimited communicative capacity and helps distinguish humans from other species.
Though Google has cast the changes as a benefit to users, saying they will enjoy a "beautifully simple" experience, the ability to piece together more information about users' activities online will ultimately prove a boon to Google as it challenges other web companies, such as Facebook, in a war over advertising dollars and users' time.
The emergence of uDBPs strengthens the ability to piece together the machinery involved in transcriptional regulation.
Transglutaminase is commonly referred to as "meat glue" due to its ability to assemble pieces of meat by crosslink formation, thereby restoring the structure of meat from low-quality fresh meat cuts (Kuraishi et al. 1997) or improving the textural properties of processed meat gels (Sun and Arntfield 2011).
One other feature that was snuck in for the Netflix and YouTube apps is the ability to pick a piece of content on a mobile app and have it beamed to the TV.
Generation of organisms with novel phenotypes will however not only require the ability to assemble large pieces of DNA, but will also need methods that allow generation of many construct variants for optimization of a desired phenotype.
Almost everyone who works with Cameron is struck by his orderly brain, his ability to pick an issue to pieces and put it back together again.
But then they have the ability to pick up the pieces and try again and that's exactly what he's doing.
