Capacity

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The ability to receive, hold, or absorb something.
  • noun. The maximum amount that can be contained.
  • noun. The power to learn or retain knowledge; mental ability.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The ability to do, make, or accomplish something; capability.
  • noun. The maximum or optimum amount that can be produced.
  • noun. The quality of being suitable for or receptive to specified treatment.
  • noun. The position in which one functions; role.
  • noun. Legal qualification or authority.
  • noun. Capacitance.
  • adjective. Filling a space with the most it can hold.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The ability of a stream to transport land-waste, measured by the quantity carried past a given point in a given time.
  • noun. The power of receiving or containing; specifically, the power of containing a certain quantity exactly; cubic contents.
  • noun. Receptivity; susceptibility to being passively affected in any way; power of receiving impressions, or of being acted upon.
  • noun. Active power; ability: as, mental capacity; the capacity of a substance to resist pressure.
  • noun. Ability in a moral or legal sense; legal qualification; legal power or right: as, a man or a corporation may have a capacity to give or receive and hold estate; A was present at the meeting in his capacity of director (that is, in virtue of his legal qualification as a director).
  • noun. Hence Character; profession; occupation; function.
  • noun. A license; authorization.
  • noun. Synonyms Dimensions.
  • noun. Aptitude, Faculty (see genius), turn, forte, aptness; Ability, Capacity (see ability).
  • noun. Office, sphere, post, function.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
  • noun. The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of understanding or feeling.
  • noun. Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.
  • noun. Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position.
  • noun. Legal or moral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, wills, etc.; legal power or right; competency.
  • noun. the power of absorbing heat. Substances differ in the amount of heat requisite to raise them a given number of thermometric degrees, and this difference is the measure of, or depends upon, what is called their capacity for heat. See Specific heat, under Heat.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The ability to hold, receive or absorb
  • noun. A measure of such ability; volume
  • noun. The maximum amount that can be held
  • noun. Capability; the ability to perform some task
  • noun. The maximum that can be produced.
  • noun. Mental ability; the power to learn
  • noun. A faculty; the potential for growth and development
  • noun. A role; the position in which one functions
  • noun. Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
  • noun. Electrical capacitance.
  • noun. The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
  • adjective. Filling the allotted space.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the maximum production possible
  • noun. the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment
  • noun. the amount that can be contained
  • noun. tolerance for alcohol
  • noun. a specified function
  • noun. (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive
  • noun. the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
  • noun. capability to perform or produce
  • noun. an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
  • Word Usage
    "All those things are time-binding phenomena produced by the time-binding capacity of man; but man has _not_ known that _this capacity_ was his"
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