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

  • (..) designs in the American radar systems. That was our answer for Russian SPUTNIK. Mom became consultant of campaigns her capacity inventive he/she transformed into wealth and knowledge. But for the moment in that "the company" reached the first million, the money seemed only (..)
    2007 Into the Wild