capacity

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This plant has a capacity of 200 MW.

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Quick take

capability to perform or produce; "among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism"; "limited runway capacity"; "a great capacity for growth"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

capability to perform or produce; "among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism"; "limited runway capacity"; "a great capacity for growth"

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the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment; "the capability of a metal to be fused"

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the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for capacity.

noun

capability to perform or produce; "among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism"; "limited runway capacity"; "a great capacity for growth"

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the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment; "the capability of a metal to be fused"

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the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons"

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the maximum production possible; "the plant is working at 80 per cent capacity"

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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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(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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an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored

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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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tolerance for alcohol; "he had drunk beyond his capacity"

Example sentences

This plant has a capacity of 200 MW.

Well, we have plenty of capacity in our web pool.

Being ready to bounce back and try again is a good capacity to develop during youth.

And the complexity of the math outgrew my capacity to visualize.

In the past Apple was always laughing at the PC ads boasting processor speed and memory capacity.

It's a crucial capacity to continue to develop into middle age.

I didn't need the full mental capacity just to navigate, I could run that process in the background and allow myself to listen to music.

I talk about this in every single presentation Ive ever given about sharding[0]: do no wait too long to add capacity.

The capacity of a plant is a number that already incorporates the plant's efficiency.

So a coal power station with high base-load capacity will place low bids for the majority of its capacity, to ensure that it gets picked first when demand is being met.

We have an incredible capacity for denial and self-deception.

[5] Steve Jobs swore in court documents that he could not be Lisa's father because he was "sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child.

If you try to add capacity to a system at 100% utilization, it is not going to work.> 5. mongos is unreliable> The mongod/config server/mongos architecture is actually pretty reasonable and clever.

I've probably lost some of my "step", in terms of raw capacity to memorize and compute mentally, and I have more commitments outside of the world of software, which dilutes my efforts further.

The capacity factor is simply a measure of how much of that capacity is actually used on an annual basis on average.^ I am not an electrical engineer.

But here in the USA, once you factor the need to carry back all the stuff we buy at Costco, you can see how the extra capacity of a carrier battle group would actually save you trips and, in the long run, be more efficient than a smaller vehicle.

Proper noun examples

Capacity factor is basically the amount of energy that a plant is actually able to produce over the course of a year divided by the total capacity of the plant.