Usually means: Ability to hold, contain, or produce.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. capacity: Merriam-Webster
  2. capacity, capacity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capacity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. capacity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. capacity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Capacity, capacity: Wordnik
  7. capacity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. capacity: Wiktionary
  9. capacity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. capacity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. capacity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. capacity: Dictionary.com
  13. capacity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. capacity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Capacity (album), Capacity (disambiguation), Capacity (law), Capacity (schooner), Capacity (song), Capacity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Capacity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. capacity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. capacity: Rhymezone
  19. capacity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. capacity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. capacity: FreeDictionary.org
  22. capacity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. capacity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. capacity: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. capacity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. capacity: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. capacity: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  9. Capacity: Disaster Management
  10. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  11. Capacity: Investopedia
  12. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  13. Capacity (disambiguation), Capacity (law), capacity: Legal dictionary
  14. Capacity (disambiguation), capacity: Financial dictionary
  15. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. capacity: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. capacity: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. Capacity: Linktionary Networking Glossary
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Capacity (disambiguation), Capacity (law), capacity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. capacity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Capacity (disambiguation), Capacity (law), capacity: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. capacity: Idioms

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  3. Capacity: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  5. capacity: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. Capacity: Physic and Astronomy Glossary
  7. Capacity: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Canoe Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Capacity: Bicycle Glossary
  3. Capacity: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. capacity: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. CAPACITY: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  The ability to hold, receive, or absorb
▸ noun:  A measure of such ability; volume
▸ noun:  The maximum amount that can be held
▸ noun:  Capability; the ability to perform some task
▸ noun:  The maximum that can be produced.
▸ noun:  Mental ability; the power to learn
▸ noun:  A faculty; the potential for growth and development
▸ noun:  A role; the position in which one functions
▸ noun:  Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
▸ noun:  Electrical capacitance.
▸ noun:  (operations) The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
▸ adjective:  Filling the allotted space.

Similar:
capability, content, capacitance, electrical capacity, mental ability, power, ability, throughput, strength, efficiency, more...

Opposite:
incapacity, limitation, inability, inadequacy, deficiency

Types:
storage, processing, bandwidth, power, heat dissipation, thermal, more...

Phrases:
carrying capacity, heat capacity, productive capacity, storage capacity, production capacity, more...

Adjectives:
productive, total, full, high, excess, limited, greater, vital, functional, mental, maximum

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Similar:
capability, content, capacitance, electrical capacity, mental ability, power, ability, throughput, strength, efficiency, more...

Opposite:
incapacity, limitation, inability, inadequacy, deficiency

Types:
storage, processing, bandwidth, power, heat dissipation, thermal, more...

Phrases:
carrying capacity, heat capacity, productive capacity, storage capacity, production capacity, excess capacity, Capacity building, full capacity, vital capacity, capacity utilization, Bearing capacity, more...

Adjectives:
productive, total, full, high, excess, limited, greater, vital, functional, mental, maximum

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     orange,     red, more...



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