capacity

Definition

  • noun: the ability to hold or contain people or things
  • noun: legal competency or fitness
  • usually singular
  • synonyms: skill, cleverness, talent

Examples

  • The factory is currently running at three-quarter 'capacity'. [=the factory is producing three quarters of what it can produce]

  • The airport is not expected to reach 'capacity' [=the highest number of planes it can deal with] for several years.

  • The restaurant has a large seating 'capacity'. [=many people can sit in the restaurant; it has many seats]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) The only living being that uses it's brain better than us... ...the dolphin. uses up to % of its celebral capacity. And in particular, this allows it to have an echo-location system that's more efficient than any sonar invented by mankind. But the dolphin did not invent the sonar. (..)
    2014 Lucy
  • (..) And with movement, interesting things began to happen. Animal life on Earth goes back millions of years. Yet, most specie only use -% of its celebral capacity. But it's not until we reached human being at the top of the animal chain, that we finally see a specie used more of its celebral capacity. (..)
    2014 Lucy