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Across various works, the term "capacity" is employed to encompass both abstract qualities and concrete measures. It embodies an ability or potential—referring to mental or moral faculties, such as one’s capacity for education or suffering ([1], [2])—while also denoting quantitative limits in physical contexts, like the storage capacity of a computer or the volume capacity of a coffee roaster ([3], [4], [5]). Moreover, "capacity" often functions to specify the role one assumes, as in serving in an official or professional capacity ([6], [7]). This duality shows how literature uses the word to bridge the conceptual realm of innate abilities with the tangible parameters of measurement and function ([8], [9]).
  1. And the real supremacy of man is based upon his capacity for education .
    — from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein
  2. I have shown, however, that the capacity for suffering is less in animals than in man.
    — from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer
  3. Typically, it is a combination computer, data management software, and large capacity hard disk drive.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  4. In Paris, there are many coffee roasters, some quite large, comparatively speaking, one having a capacity of about seven hundred and fifty bags a day.
    — from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
  5. [402] A ton register is of a capacity of 100 cubic feet; a ton measurement is usually assumed to have a capacity of 40 cubic feet.
    — from A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499
  6. This was when he was a member of the household of the Comte d’Artois, in the capacity of physician to the Stables.
    — from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  7. “Mr. Pip,” he returned, “you will be welcome there, in a private and personal capacity.”
    — from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  8. He believed in his own literary power, his capacity for suggesting fine shades and picking perfect words.
    — from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
  9. These are those that are called the sect of the Pharisees, who were in a capacity of greatly opposing kings.
    — from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

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