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capacity

/kuh-pas-i-tee/US // kəˈpæs ɪ ti //UK // (kəˈpæsɪtɪ) //

能力,容量,容积率,容貌

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ca·pac·i·ties.

    • : the ability to receive or contain: This hotel has a large capacity.
    • : the maximum amount or number that can be received or contained; cubic contents; volume: The inn is filled to capacity. The gasoline tank has a capacity of 20 gallons.
    • : power of receiving impressions, knowledge, etc.; mental ability: the capacity to learn calculus.
    • : actual or potential ability to perform, yield, or withstand: He has a capacity for hard work. The capacity of the oil well was 150 barrels a day. She has the capacity to go two days without sleep.
    • : quality or state of being susceptible to a given treatment or action: Steel has a high capacity to withstand pressure.
    • : position; function; role: He served in the capacity of legal adviser.
    • : legal qualification.
    • : Electricity. capacitance. maximum possible output.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : reaching maximum capacity: a capacity audience; a capacity crowd.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounability; competency
Forms: capacities

Examples

  • Strickland’s lawsuit sought $75,000 in damages for “physical, mental, emotional, and economic injuries” from the incident, lost wages and earning capacity and past and future medical care and expenses.

  • Those are two things that humans have some capacity for, but we constantly fall short.

  • It also plans to use the new capital in part to scale its production capacity with increased automation.

  • On the other hand, more capacity means more weight, and if that’s something you’d prefer to avoid, consider a product with a smaller, lighter bag.

  • One strategist who said he received sexual solicitations from Weaver said he knew him at first in a professional capacity.

  • Specifically, the pilots got themselves into a high altitude stall, where the wings lose the capacity to provide lift.

  • It is all too easy to be despondent in the face of what seems like the endless capacity of evil to reinvent itself.

  • Foxx says that he thinks this generation has the capacity to keep pushing through racial barriers.

  • For example, since 2011 it has been adding 30 per cent more capacity per year on flights to Puerto Rico.

  • First up is the larger wash still, its capacity ranging from 25,000 to 30,000 liters.

  • Wasn't the dead man stretched in the shadow convincing proof of their capacity for pure devilishness?

  • This widening grasp of languages is or was within the capacity of nearly everyone born into the world—given the facilities.

  • Here and there exceptional industry or extraordinary capacity raised the artisan to wealth and turned the "man" into the "master."

  • There was a while when I developed a marvelous capacity for dodging invitations to Fort Walsh.

  • It is said that his bold spirit, his capacity for work and his great influence daunted his most determined opponents.