The phrase "novel ability" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a new or unique skill or capability that someone or something possesses.
Example: "The research team discovered a novel ability in the bacteria to degrade plastic waste efficiently."
Alternatives: "new capability" or "unique skill".
They could be disappointed.Although Sony has sold e-book readers in America for several years, the Japanese firm allowed Amazon to gain the upper hand with the Kindle, which offers users the novel ability to download books wirelessly from Amazon's online store.
But Louis Lefebvre, an animal behaviorist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, argues that "there's been evidence for a long time" against the hypothesis that learning from others is a novel ability that evolved separately from other types of learning.
In this study, we found that SMP had an novel ability to adjust the compatibility between 2-Acrylamido-2-Methyl Propane Sulfonic Acid (AMPS -based Fluid Loss AMPS -basedLA) and Retarder in oil well cement.
In The Invention of Lying, Mark Bellison Gervaiss' character) does so well out of his novel ability to lie precisely because the cooperative nature of the lie-free society he inhabits.
Such a novel ability was first hinted in our study of basonuclin-deficient oocytes.
Figure 2a shows the novel ability of mammalian CPR to deplete peroxide.
These novel abilities are consistent with Bordetella studies showing that FbpABp is required by these respiratory pathogens for the utilization of both inorganic iron and siderophore-bound iron.
Polyploidization triggers changes of various kinds (e.g. metabolic, physiologic and gene regulation) with respect to the diploid parents and these changes may provide polyploids with novel abilities to face environmental requirements (Levin 1983; Wendel 2000).
But it also tends to restrict a novel's ability to make large connections, larger coherences, the expansion and deepening of its themes.
Its greatness, then, was the greatness of an Upton Sinclair novel — the ability to convey brilliantly the liberal critique of society.
From General Kutuzov to the middle-ranking officer Prince Andrei to the humble Captain Tushin, Russian soldiers in the novel display ability, dedication and cohesiveness.
