capacity

Meanings

Noun

• The ability to hold, receive or absorb
• A measure of such ability; volume
• The maximum amount that can be held
• Capability; the ability to perform some task
• The maximum that can be produced.
• Mental ability; the power to learn
• A faculty; the potential for growth and development
• A role; the position in which one functions
• Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
• Electrical capacitance.
• The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.

Adjective

• Filling the allotted space.

Related

Similar words

• throughput

Origin

• From Middle English capacite, from Old French capacite, from Latin capācitās, from capax, from capiō.