capacity
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂-k-s Proto-Italic *-āks Latin -āx Latin capāx Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin capācitāsder. Old French capacitebor. Middle English capacite English capacity From Middle English capacite, from Old French capacite, from Latin capācitās, from capāx (“able to hold much”), from capiō (“to hold, to contain, to take, to understand”).
Definitions
The ability to hold, receive, or absorb.
A measure of such ability
A measure of such ability; volume.
Capability
Capability; the ability to perform some task.
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The maximum that can be produced.
The potential for growth and development.
A role
A role; the position in which one functions.
Electrical capacitance.
Filling the allotted space.
The neighborhood
- neighborcapac
- neighborcapacitance
- neighborcapacitate
- neighborcapacitation
- neighborcapacitive
- neighborcapacitor
- neighborcapacious
Derived
ampacity, biocapacity, breaking capacity, capacity planning, capacity utilization, capacity utilization rate, carrying capacity, cubic capacity, diminished capacity, field capacity, finite capacity planning, heat capacity, incapacity, legal capacity, lung capacity, molar heat capacity, overcapacity, pseudocapacity, Shannon capacity, specific heat capacity, subcapacity, supercapacity, supracapacity, uncapacity, vital capacity
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at capacity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at capacity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at capacity
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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