Capacity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CAPACITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the ability to receive or contain
• the maximum amount that something can contain
• fully occupying the available area or space
• the total cylinder volume that is swept by the pistons in an internal combustion engine
• the amount that something can produce
• the ability or power to do or understand something
• a specified role or position
• ability to contain, absorb, or hold
• The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
• The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling.
• Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.
• Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
• Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency.
• capability to perform or produce
• the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment
• the amount that can be contained
• the maximum production possible
• a specified function
• (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive
• an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
• the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
• tolerance for alcohol
• a person's legal competence
ADJECTIVE:
• of the maximum amount or number possible

Words related to CAPACITY

capacities16

Words that contain CAPACITY

incapacity19 overcapacity24

How to use CAPACITY in a sentence

• Kinkaid in a similar capacity, would be sent for to come hurriedly.
• It brings a progressive growth and creates in each the greatest productive capacity.
• Men had gone down to the sea in the lowest capacity, and risen in greatness, and owned great fleets, and done great deeds, and left their names on the pages of time.
• He was a man of good business capacity, and a thorough manager of his wide and lucrative interests.
• Even when the soil is rich they only possess the capacity of acquiring value under labor.
• If we, as a Nation, are to continue the wonderful growth we have had, it is forethought and foresight which must give us the capacity to go on as we have been going.
• In proportion as the strength of his mind and constitution diminished, so did his capacity for bearing liquor.
• He had a better opinion of my legal capacity than it merited.
• The discredit of the surprise was not redeemed by any exhibition of intelligence, energy, or professional capacity, on the part of the officer in charge.
• Construction has boomed, with hotel capacity five times the 1985 level.
• For no other naval battle have we so much invaluable comment from men of the highest capacity who were present.
• The former afterwards recovered his health, and returned to Turkey as agent of the American Bible Society, in which capacity he has rendered very valuable service.
• Their measures were at that time directed by John de Wit, a minister equally eminent for greatness of mind, for capacity, and for integrity.
• Had she been allowed this equality, there is no doubt she would be the counterpart of man in ability and capacity.
• I knew of the capacity of the machine, and that it did so execute in the bottom three acres an hour.
• Nor would she be long in finding out whether his knowledge is digested, and the capacity to digest it, remember, is a natural faculty.
• For a large main, it may be a brick reservoir with a capacity of 2 or 3 cubic feet.
• It was ever a cause of regret to the elder Moore that his son did not show sufficient capacity to be trusted safely with the business.
• With his immense capacity for work, at the end of a year Peter Champneys had made great strides.
• Mary was struck by her capacity for being thus easily silent, and occupied with her own thoughts.
• Soon after the publication of his first poetical productions, he was sent to Bermuda in an official capacity.
• But devotion to the head of the state in his representative capacity is a different thing from the old feudal loyalty.
• He was never so wholly fatigued that a drink or a meal would not pull him up to a zest and a capacity for a further task.

Similar words containing CAPAC without suffix ity

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