capacity: meaning and definitions

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What is capacity?

What is capacity?

  • The ability to receive, hold, or absorb.
  • A measure of this ability; volume.
  • The maximum amount that can be contained: a trunk filled to capacity.
  • Ability to perform or produce; capability.
  • The maximum or optimum amount that can be produced: factories operating below capacity.
  • The power to learn or retain knowledge; mental ability.
  • Innate potential for growth, development, or accomplishment; faculty. See Synonyms at ability.
  • The quality of being suitable for or receptive to specified treatment: the capacity of elastic to be stretched.
  • The position in which one functions; role: in your capacity as sales manager.
  • Legal qualification or authority: the capacity to make an arrest.
  • Electricity Capacitance.
  • Filling a space with the most it can hold: a capacity crowd at the concert.

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