capacity
Capacity (from Latin capacitas "capacity") stands for:
- Electrical capacitance (physics), measure of the ability of a body or system to store electrical charge
- Capacitor (electrical engineering) as a colloquial synonym for the electrical component
- Capacity (galvanic cell) , maximum amount of charge in a galvanic cell, such as batteries and accumulators
- Heat capacity (physics), ability of a body to store energy in the form of heat
- Capacity (hydraulics) , ratio of the change in volume to the associated change in pressure
- Volume of hollow bodies, also in a figurative sense
- Storage capacity (computer science), data capacity of storage hardware
- Channel capacity (information theory), maximum bit rate of error-free transmission
- Capacity of a cut as the sum of the capacities of the edges leading out of the cut (graph theory); see flows and cuts in networks # cut
- Capacity (traffic) , maximum traffic flow of a traffic facility
- Capacity (economy) , production output or all of the production facilities
- Capacity (mathematics) , monotonous set function
- Learning ability of a person (psychology); see learning
- outstanding specialist or recognized expert in his field (general). Synonym: luminary
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Wiktionary: Capacity - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations