capacity
the ability to receive or contain: This hotel has a large capacity.
the maximum amount or number that can be received or contained; cubic contents; volume: The inn is filled to capacity.The gasoline tank has a capacity of 20 gallons.
power of receiving impressions, knowledge, etc.; mental ability: the capacity to learn calculus.
actual or potential ability to perform, yield, or withstand: He has a capacity for hard work.The capacity of the oil well was 150 barrels a day.She has the capacity to go two days without sleep.
quality or state of being susceptible to a given treatment or action: Steel has a high capacity to withstand pressure.
position; function; role: He served in the capacity of legal adviser.
legal qualification.
Electricity.
maximum possible output.
reaching maximum capacity: a capacity audience;a capacity crowd.
Origin of capacity
1Other words for capacity
2 | dimensions, amplitude |
3 | endowment, talent, gifts |
4 | aptitude, adequacy, competence, capability |
Words that may be confused with capacity
- ability, capacity
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How to use capacity in a sentence
Strickland’s lawsuit sought $75,000 in damages for “physical, mental, emotional, and economic injuries” from the incident, lost wages and earning capacity and past and future medical care and expenses.
Raptors president, sheriff’s deputy drop lawsuits over shoving incident at NBA Finals | Cindy Boren | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostThose are two things that humans have some capacity for, but we constantly fall short.
Can I Ask You a Ridiculously Personal Question? (Ep. 451) | Stephen J. Dubner | February 11, 2021 | FreakonomicsIt also plans to use the new capital in part to scale its production capacity with increased automation.
Mighty Buildings nabs $40M Series B to 3D print your next house | Mary Ann Azevedo | February 9, 2021 | TechCrunchOn the other hand, more capacity means more weight, and if that’s something you’d prefer to avoid, consider a product with a smaller, lighter bag.
Wood chippers to keep your property looking great | PopSci Commerce Team | February 9, 2021 | Popular-ScienceOne strategist who said he received sexual solicitations from Weaver said he knew him at first in a professional capacity.
Lincoln Project’s avowed ignorance of Weaver texts undercut by leaked communications | Chris Johnson | February 9, 2021 | Washington Blade
Specifically, the pilots got themselves into a high altitude stall, where the wings lose the capacity to provide lift.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly? | Clive Irving | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is all too easy to be despondent in the face of what seems like the endless capacity of evil to reinvent itself.
The Catholic Philosopher Who Took on Hitler | John Henry Crosby | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFoxx says that he thinks this generation has the capacity to keep pushing through racial barriers.
For example, since 2011 it has been adding 30 per cent more capacity per year on flights to Puerto Rico.
First up is the larger wash still, its capacity ranging from 25,000 to 30,000 liters.
When It Comes to Great Whisky, The Size of Your Still Matters | | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWasn't the dead man stretched in the shadow convincing proof of their capacity for pure devilishness?
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairThis widening grasp of languages is or was within the capacity of nearly everyone born into the world—given the facilities.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) WellsHere and there exceptional industry or extraordinary capacity raised the artisan to wealth and turned the "man" into the "master."
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThere was a while when I developed a marvelous capacity for dodging invitations to Fort Walsh.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairIt is said that his bold spirit, his capacity for work and his great influence daunted his most determined opponents.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
British Dictionary definitions for capacity
/ (kəˈpæsɪtɪ) /
the ability or power to contain, absorb, or hold
the amount that can be contained; volume: a capacity of six gallons
the maximum amount something can contain or absorb (esp in the phrase filled to capacity)
(as modifier): a capacity crowd
the ability to understand or learn; aptitude; capability: he has a great capacity for Greek
the ability to do or produce (often in the phrase at capacity): the factory's output was not at capacity
a specified position or function: he was employed in the capacity of manager
a measure of the electrical output of a piece of apparatus such as a motor, generator, or accumulator
electronics a former name for capacitance
computing
the number of words or characters that can be stored in a particular storage device
the range of numbers that can be processed in a register
the bit rate that a communication channel or other system can carry
legal competence: the capacity to make a will
Origin of capacity
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