capacity
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
capacity/kəˈpasəti/
▶noun (pl. capacities)
- 1 the maximum amount that something can contain or produce.
■ [as modifier] fully occupying the available space: a capacity crowd.
■ the total cylinder volume that is swept by the pistons in an internal-combustion engine.
- 2 the ability or power to do something.
■ a person's legal competence.
- 3 a specified role or position.
- 4 dated electrical capacitance.
– derivatives
capacitive (also capacitative) adjective (chiefly Physics).
capacitive (also capacitative) adjective (chiefly Physics).
– origin ME: from Fr. capacité, from L. capacitas, from capax, capac- ‘that can contain’, from capere ‘take or hold’.
'capacity' also found in these Oxford entries:
absorbance
- -acious
- Ampakine
- backbone
- Balthazar
- bandwidth
- barrel
- bouncebackability
- brain
- broadband
- burden
- bushel
- cap.
- capacitance
- centilitre
- compliance
- connectivity
- cubage
- cup
- debut
- decalitre
- decilitre
- deindustrialization
- depute
- digestion
- energy
- enter
- extraordinaire
- fall
- feeling
- firepower
- flotation
- fluid ounce
- formula
- free energy
- full
- full bore
- full house
- gauge
- give
- grasp
- hard disk
- have
- heart
- heat capacity
- hectolitre
- hin
- hypaesthesia
- incapacitate
