Capacity describes your ability to do something or the amount something can hold. If your bird cage is at full capacity, you can't stuff one more feathered friend in there without causing birdie claustrophobia.
The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
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a specified function; "he was employed in the capacity of director"; "he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary"
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the maximum production possible; "the plant is working at 80 per cent capacity"
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tolerance for alcohol; "he had drunk beyond his capacity"
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ability to perform or produce
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the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
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an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
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(computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive; "the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes"
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the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons"
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the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment; "the capability of a metal to be fused"
n.
The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or
space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
n.
The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge,
etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty;
capability of undestanding or feeling.
n.
Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the
possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of
doing.
n.
Outward condition or circumstances; occupation;
profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason
or a carpenter.
n.
Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence,
character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office,
for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right;
competency.
Capacity
Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together.
The capacity of the exhausted cylinder.2.
Capacity is now properly limited to these [the mere passive operations of the mind]; its primary signification, which is literally room for, as well as its employment, favars this; although it can not be dented that there are examples of its usage in an active sense.3.
The capacity of blessing the people.
A cause with such capacities endued.4.
The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
Usage Examples
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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Other Usage ExamplesAll great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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