capacity
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English, from French capacité, from Latin capacitas, from capax (“able to hold much”), from capere (“to hold, contain”).
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capacity (plural capacities)
- The ability to hold, receive or absorb
- A measure of such ability; volume
- The maximum amount that can be held
- It was hauling a capacity load.
- The orchestra played to a capacity crowd.
- Capability; the ability to perform some task
- The maximum that can be produced.
- Mental ability; the power to learn
- A faculty; the potential for growth and development
- A role; the position in which one functions
- Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
- Electrical capacitance.
- (operations) The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
- Its capacity rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum capacity was 200 tons per hour.
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- throughput
- See also Wikisaurus:skill
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[edit] Translations
the ability to hold, receive or absorb
capability; the ability to perform some task
the maximum that can be produced
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the position in which one functions
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electrical capacitance
legal authority
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[edit] Adjective
capacity
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) Filling the allotted space.
- There will be a capacity crowd at Busch stadium for the sixth game.
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[edit] External links
- capacity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- capacity in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- capacity at OneLook Dictionary Search
