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Capacity

capacity is on the Academic Word List.

Capacity is on theAcademic Vocabulary List.

(countable &uncountable);(singular) Thecapacity of a container, room, etc. is how much it can hold.
Thecapacity of the bottle is 500 $m l {\displaystyle ml}$ .
Thecapacity of the hard drive is 120 GB.
I'm sorry, this pool only has acapacity of 100 people and I can't let any more in.
If you fill it tocapacity, you won't be able to carry it.
(countable) Thecapacity of someone or something to do something is the ability to do it.
I was impressed by his energy andcapacity for hard work.
Since the head injury he has lost hiscapacity to learn new names.
(uncountable) Thecapacity of a factory or business is how much it can produce.
It will soon be necessary to increasecapacity at our Toronto plant to meet Canadian demand for the product.
(countable) If someone does something in a particularcapacity, they are doing it in thatrole.
I am not writing to you in mycapacity as your doctor, but as a friend.
Sometimes I make decisions in mycapacity as father that I don't like in mycapacity as husband.
He's been hired in a temporarycapacity.

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