Capacity

Noun

 * 1) the ability to hold, receive or absorb
 * 2) a measure of such ability; volume
 * 3) the maximum amount that can be held
 * 4) capability; the ability to perform some task
 * 5) the maximum that can be produced
 * 6) mental ability; the power to learn
 * 7) faculty; the potential for growth and development
 * 8) rôle; the position in which one functions
 * 9) legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
 * 10) electrical capacitance
 * 11)  The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.

Adjective
capacity


 * 1) filling the allotted space

Adjectives for Capacity
imitative; business; temporal; assimilative; remarkable, absorptive; negative; producadjectives gleeful; lamb-like; idle; imitative; business; temporal; assimilative; remarkable, absorptive; negative; productive; private; normal; functional; boundless; superior; reserve; carrying; immense; phenomenal; histrionic; unbounded; equestrian; bestowed; fruitful; partisan; sovereign; native; fatal; individual; narrowest physical; psychological; proper; everlasting increasing; cubical; wage-earning; reputed creative; intellectual; interpretative; not able; productive;  automatic;  honorary earning; predatory; constitutional; digni ned;  uncommon;  extensive;  aggregate daily; destructive; magical; executive; exceptional; innate; latent; automatic; enlarged; varying; inexhaustible; bear-like; extraordinary; tremendous; ultimate; human seating; consulting; mental; social; official business; threefold; spiritual; prehensile advisory; endless; singular; considerable utmost; marked; unique; stunted; amazing unparalleled; infinite; limitless; incredible strange; cold-blooded; meanest; inherent natural; fertile; implanted; expert; unsuspected; sufficient; demonstrated; flexible inborn; benevolent; hidden; varied; contrasted; formidable.

Verbs for Capacity
cultivate—; delineate—; demonstrate—; develop—; endow with—; engender—; enlarge—; exceed—; exert to—; expand—; gauge—; impair—; increase—; limit—; measure—; nourish—; overestimate—; reduce—; sharpen—; —dwindles; —wanes.

Synonyms for Capacity
throughput, volume, expanse, size, magnitude, content, faculty, aptness, ability, genius, skill, gift.

Antonyms for Capacity
smallness, impotence.

Thesaurus
ingenuity, instinct, integrative power, intellect, intellectual gifts, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intellectuals, intelligence, intelligence quotient, jam up, jam-packed, job, judgement, knack, know-how, knowledge, lading, limit, load, long suit, makings, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, means, measure, mental age, mental capacity, mental grasp, mental ratio, mentality, method, metier, might, mother wit, mouthful, native wit, natural endowment, natural gift, office, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, part, parts, perception, perceptiveness, perspicacity, place, plenary, position, post, potential, poundage, power, power of mind, powers, practical ability, proficiency, province, prowess, qualification, quality, quantity, quickness, rank, rationality, readiness, ready to burst, reasoning power, recourses, relation, replete, resistance capacitance, resorts, resource, resourcefulness, resources, responsibility, role, room, roominess, round, sanity, satiated, saturated, savoir-faire, savvy, scope of mind, seamanship, sense, senses, situation, size, skill, skillfulness, skinful, snootful, soaked, space, spaciousness, speciality, sphere, standing, standing room only, state, station, status, stock, stowage, strong flair, strong point, stuffed, style, sufficiency, supply, surfeited, susceptibility, swollen, tact, tactfulness, talent, talents, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, the goods, the stuff, thinking power, timing, tonnage, topful, twin, understanding, virtuosity, volume, ways, ways and means, what it takes, wherewith, wherewithal, wit, wits, wizardry, workmanship, IQ, SRO, ability, ableness, accommodation, acumen, address, adeptness, adequacy, adroitness, airmanship, amplitude, apprehension, aptitude, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, bellyful, bent, brains, bravura, brilliance, brimful, brimming, bulging, bump, bumper, burden, bursting, caliber, capability, capableness, capaciousness, capacitance, capital, character, charge, chock-full, chuck-full, cleverness, collector junction capacitance, command, commodiousness, competence, competency, complement, comprehension, conception, condition, congested, consciousness, content, control, coordination, cordage, craft, craftsmanship, cram, cram-full, crammed, crush, cunning, deductive power, deftness, devices, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, dimensions, diplomacy, disposable resources, dower, dowry, duty, efficacy, efficiency, emitter junction capacitance, endowment, equipment, esemplastic power, expansiveness, expertise, extensiveness, facility, faculties, faculty, farad, farci, fill, filled, finesse, fitness, flair, flush, footing, forte, full, full house, full measure, full to bursting, function, funds, genius, gift, grace, grip, handiness, horsemanship, ideation, ingeniousness,

Etymology
From, from capacité:, from  capacitas:, from capax:, from capere:.

Pronunciation

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