Capacity
noun
The maximum amount that something can contain or produce.
The stadium has a seating capacity of 50,000 people.
Often appears as...
- seating capacity
- storage capacity
noun
The ability or power to do, experience, or understand something.
She has a great capacity for learning new languages.
Often appears as...
- learning capacity
- mental capacity
noun
A person's role or job.
He is working in the capacity of a teacher.
Often appears as...
- in the capacity of
- official capacity
noun
The amount that something can hold.
The laptop has a hard drive capacity of 500 gigabytes.
Often appears as...
- disk capacity
- memory capacity
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Technical
noun
Legal authority to make decisions.
He signed the contract in his capacity as the company's CEO.
Often appears as...
- legal capacity
- capacity to contract
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Formal
Academic
noun
The maximum amount that something can contain or produce.
The stadium has a seating capacity of 50,000 people.
Often appears as...
- seating capacity
- storage capacity
noun
The ability or power to do, experience, or understand something.
She has a great capacity for learning new languages.
Often appears as...
- learning capacity
- mental capacity
noun
A person's role or job.
He is working in the capacity of a teacher.
Often appears as...
- in the capacity of
- official capacity
noun
The amount that something can hold.
The laptop has a hard drive capacity of 500 gigabytes.
Often appears as...
- disk capacity
- memory capacity
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Legal authority to make decisions.
He signed the contract in his capacity as the company's CEO.
Often appears as...
- legal capacity
- capacity to contract
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Quantitative Limits
Refers to specific numbers illustrating the limit of a space or object.
The bottle's capacity is two liters.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Constraints
Indicates the physical boundaries within which something operates or fits.
The suitcase has a capacity of 45 kilograms.
Pro Tip 1/2Quantitative Limits
Refers to specific numbers illustrating the limit of a space or object.
The bottle's capacity is two liters.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Constraints
Indicates the physical boundaries within which something operates or fits.
The suitcase has a capacity of 45 kilograms.
Pro Tip 1/2Quantitative Limits
Refers to specific numbers illustrating the limit of a space or object.
The bottle's capacity is two liters.
Pro Tip 2/2Physical Constraints
Indicates the physical boundaries within which something operates or fits.
The suitcase has a capacity of 45 kilograms.
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If superpowers were...
From bicycles to jet packs, from looking up at the stars to entering outer space in the shuttle, our capacity to acquire knowledge and imagination to achieve impossible goals appears to be limitless. Exciting developments in the worlds of both humans and superheroes will always influence each other.
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The incredible...
allowing scientists to study the long-term physical and psychological effects of being in space, which would prove useful for increasingly ambitious space travel, like trips to Mars. Over its lifetime, we've learned an immense amount scientifically, but also about our capacity to work together
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How small are we in the...
That's incredible when we think about how vast the universe is. Why would we expect it to be the same across such huge distances? On the scale of a galaxy, let alone the universe, we're smaller than we can readily comprehend, but we do have the capacity to wonder, to question, to explore,
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Julian Baggini: Is there...
if you believe in an afterlife, maybe you continue. But if you think of yourself as being, in a way, not a thing as such, but a kind of a process, something that is changing, then I think that's quite liberating. Because unlike the the waterfalls, we actually have the capacity to channel
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How do hard drives work?...
This amazing advance in storage capacity wasn't just a matter of making everything smaller, but involved multiple innovations. A technique called the thin film lithography process allowed engineers to shrink the reader and writer. And despite its size, the reader became more sensitive
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NASA Trailblazer:...
an amazing african-american female mathematician who changed the world because of catherine and nasa we've embraced that diversity of thought only improves our capacity to make change both in outer space and here on earth younger versions of myself don't have to
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Incredible Orangutan...
still convincing haze's capacity to recognize himself as well as long-lost friends shows that orangutans are far more aware than previously thought it's hoped that one day even the orphaned orangutans raised in forest school can make a similar journey
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Why do airlines sell too...
Or have you been bumped off a flight that you paid for? These are all symptoms of overbooking, a practice where businesses and institutions sell or book more than their full capacity. While often infuriating for the customer,
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Why modern renewable...
thank you so much for dinner solar power is scaling up faster than cellphones for six years running half the world's editions of electric generating capacity have been renewable and the fastest-growing parts have been
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Why elephants never...
is a capacity even more important than their sense of empathy, altruism, and justice. Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead, performing burial rituals and returning to visit graves.
Video examples
If superpowers were...
From bicycles to jet packs, from looking up at the stars to entering outer space in the shuttle, our capacity to acquire knowledge and imagination to achieve impossible goals appears to be limitless. Exciting developments in the worlds of both humans and superheroes will always influence each other.
Video examples
The incredible...
allowing scientists to study the long-term physical and psychological effects of being in space, which would prove useful for increasingly ambitious space travel, like trips to Mars. Over its lifetime, we've learned an immense amount scientifically, but also about our capacity to work together
Video examples
How small are we in the...
That's incredible when we think about how vast the universe is. Why would we expect it to be the same across such huge distances? On the scale of a galaxy, let alone the universe, we're smaller than we can readily comprehend, but we do have the capacity to wonder, to question, to explore,
Video examples
Julian Baggini: Is there...
if you believe in an afterlife, maybe you continue. But if you think of yourself as being, in a way, not a thing as such, but a kind of a process, something that is changing, then I think that's quite liberating. Because unlike the the waterfalls, we actually have the capacity to channel
Video examples
How do hard drives work?...
This amazing advance in storage capacity wasn't just a matter of making everything smaller, but involved multiple innovations. A technique called the thin film lithography process allowed engineers to shrink the reader and writer. And despite its size, the reader became more sensitive
Video examples
NASA Trailblazer:...
an amazing african-american female mathematician who changed the world because of catherine and nasa we've embraced that diversity of thought only improves our capacity to make change both in outer space and here on earth younger versions of myself don't have to
Video examples
Incredible Orangutan...
still convincing haze's capacity to recognize himself as well as long-lost friends shows that orangutans are far more aware than previously thought it's hoped that one day even the orphaned orangutans raised in forest school can make a similar journey
Video examples
Why do airlines sell too...
Or have you been bumped off a flight that you paid for? These are all symptoms of overbooking, a practice where businesses and institutions sell or book more than their full capacity. While often infuriating for the customer,
Video examples
Why modern renewable...
thank you so much for dinner solar power is scaling up faster than cellphones for six years running half the world's editions of electric generating capacity have been renewable and the fastest-growing parts have been
Video examples
Why elephants never...
is a capacity even more important than their sense of empathy, altruism, and justice. Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead, performing burial rituals and returning to visit graves.
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Stephen King
Author
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.
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Viola Davis
American Actress
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Clergyman
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
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Brene Brown
American Author
When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
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Norman Cousins
American Author
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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Tony Robbins
American Speaker
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
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Thomas Merton
American Author
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
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Baruch Spinoza
Dutch Philosopher
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.
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Stephen King
Author
I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.
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Viola Davis
American Actress
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
Quote examples
Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Clergyman
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
Quote examples
Brene Brown
American Author
When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.
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Norman Cousins
American Author
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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Tony Robbins
American Speaker
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Quote examples
Thomas Merton
American Author
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Quote examples
Baruch Spinoza
Dutch Philosopher
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.
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