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Definitions for Capacity

[1] the ability to receive or contain: This hotel has a large capacity.
[2] 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.
[3] power of receiving impressions, knowledge, etc.; mental ability: the capacity to learn calculus.
[4] 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.
[5] quality or state of being susceptible to a given treatment or action: Steel has a high capacity to withstand pressure.
[6] position; function; role: He served in the capacity of legal adviser.
[7] legal qualification.
[8] Electricity . capacitance. maximum possible output.
[9] reaching maximum capacity: a capacity audience; a capacity crowd.
[10] the ability or power to contain, absorb, or hold
[11] the amount that can be contained; volume a capacity of six gallons
[12] the maximum amount something can contain or absorb (esp in the phrase filled to capacity ) (as modifier ) a capacity crowd
[13] the ability to understand or learn; aptitude; capability he has a great capacity for Greek
[14] the ability to do or produce (often in the phrase at capacity ) the factory's output was not at capacity
[15] a specified position or function he was employed in the capacity of manager
[16] a measure of the electrical output of a piece of apparatus such as a motor, generator, or accumulator
[17] electronics a former name for capacitance
[18] 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
[19] the bit rate that a communication channel or other system can carry
[20] legal competence the capacity to make a will

Words related to Capacity

scope, space, quantity, size, readiness, strength, talent, power, facility, capability, efficiency, skill, competence, extent, proportions, sweep, measure, contents, retention, dimensions

Words nearby Capacity

capacitation, capacitive, capacitive coupling, capacitive reactance, capacitor, capacity, capactin, capaneus, caparison, capataz, cape

Origin of Capacity

1375–1425; late Middle English capacite < Middle French < Latin capācitāt- (stem of capācitās ), equivalent to capāci-, stem of capāx roomy (cap(ere ) to hold + -āci- adj. suffix) + -tāt- -ty2

Words that may be confused with Capacity

ability, capacity

Word origin for Capacity

C15: from Old French capacite, from Latin capācitās, from capāx spacious, from capere to take

Synonyms for Capacity

quantity, scope, size, space, accommodation, amplitude, bulk, burden, compass, contents, dimensions, expanse, extent, full, latitude, magnitude, mass, measure, proportions, range, reach, retention, room, spread, sufficiency, sweep, holding ability, holding power, standing room only