Usually means: Maximum population an environment supports.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word carrying capacity:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. carrying capacity: Merriam-Webster
  2. carrying capacity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. carrying capacity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. carrying capacity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. carrying capacity: Wiktionary
  6. carrying capacity: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. carrying capacity: Dictionary.com
  8. Carrying capacity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. carrying capacity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. carrying capacity: Legal dictionary
  3. carrying capacity: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Carrying capacity (biology), carrying capacity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Carrying capacity (biology), carrying capacity: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Population Terms (No longer online)

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Carrying Capacity: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  6. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)
  8. Biodiversity (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (carrying capacity)

noun:  (transport) The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry.
noun:  (ecology) The number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support.

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