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Capacity is the ability to hold, receive or absorb, or a measure thereof, similar to the concept of volume
Volume

The volume of any solid, liquid, plasma, vacuum or theoretical object is how much three-dimensional space it occupies, often quantified numerically....
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Capacity is the ability to hold, receive or absorb, or a measure thereof, similar to the concept of volume
Volume

The volume of any solid, liquid, plasma, vacuum or theoretical object is how much three-dimensional space it occupies, often quantified numerically....
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Capacity may also refer to:
  • Capacity (economics)
    Capacity utilization

    Capacity utilization is a concept in economics which refers to the extent to which an enterprise or a nation actually uses its installed productive capacity....
    , the point of production at which a firm or industry's average (or "per-unit") costs begin to rise, usually because some factor is fixed (often capital or land).
  • Capacity (law)
    Capacity (law)

    The capacity of both natural person and artificial person persons determines whether they may make binding amendments to their rights, duty and obligations, such as getting marriage or Mergers and acquisitions, entering into contracts, making gift , or writing a valid will ....
    , the legal ability to engage in certain acts, such as making a contract.
  • In decision theory, a capacity is a subjective measure of likelihood of an event, similar to a membership function
    Membership function (mathematics)

    The membership function of a fuzzy set is a generalization of the indicator function in classical Set . In fuzzy logic, it represents the degree of truth as an extension of Valuation ....
     in fuzzy logic.


See also

  • Capacitor
    Capacitor

    A capacitor or condenser is a Passive component electronic component consisting of a pair of electrical conductor separated by a dielectric....
  • Absorptive capacity
    Absorptive capacity

    In business administration, absorptive capacity is the theory or model used to measure a firm's ability to value, assimilate, and apply new knowledge....
  • Analytic capacity
    Analytic capacity

    In complex analysis, the analytic capacity of a compact subset K of the complex plane is a number that denotes "how big" a bounded analytic function from can become....
  • Capacity of a set
    Capacity of a set

    In mathematics, the capacity of a set in Euclidean space is a measure of that set's "size". Unlike, say, Lebesgue measure, which measures a set's volume or physical extent, capacity is a mathematical analogue of a set's ability to hold electrical charge....
     — including the notions of condenser, harmonic and Newtonian capacity
  • Carrying capacity
    Carrying capacity

    The supportable population of an organism, given the food, habitat, drinking water and other necessities available within an environment is known as the environment's carrying capacity for that organism....
  • Channel capacity
    Channel capacity

    In electrical engineering, computer science and information theory, channel capacity is the tightest upper bound on the amount of information that can be reliably transmitted over a channel ....
  • Cranial capacity
    Cranial capacity

    Cranial capacity is a measure of the volume of the interior of the cranium of those vertebrates who have both a cranium and a brain. The most commonly used unit of measure is the cubic centimetre or cubic centimetre....
  • Diffusion capacity
    Diffusion capacity

    In biology, diffusion capacity is a measurement of the lung's ability to transfer gases. Oxygen uptake may be limited by diffusion in circumstances of low ambient oxygen or high pulmonary blood flow....
  • Heat capacity
  • Seating capacity
    Seating capacity

    Seating capacity refers to the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, either in terms of the space available, or in terms of limitations set by law....
  • Toxic capacity
    Toxic capacity

    Toxic capacity can mean the toxicity of a substance, possibly in relation to a specific organism and toxic capacity can mean the capacity of an organism, organic system or ecosystem to contain a toxic substance or a selection of toxic substances without showing signs of poisoning or dying....
  • Evolving capacities
    Evolving capacities

    Evolving Capacities is the concept in which education, child development and youth development youth programs led by adults takes into account the capacities of the child or youth to exercise youth rights on his or her own behalf....
  • Capacity utilization
    Capacity utilization

    Capacity utilization is a concept in economics which refers to the extent to which an enterprise or a nation actually uses its installed productive capacity....