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carrying capacity

noun

Definitions

  1. The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry.

  2. The number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support.

    • With their populations adjusted to the carrying capacity of the environment, hunters and gatherers rarely starve, for they are not dependent on the fortunes of a single crop.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for carrying capacity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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