capacity
/kəˈpæsɪti/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.71 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It was hauling a capacity load."
- "The orchestra played to a capacity crowd."
- "A factory operating at less than full capacity."
- "Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application. Either they never learn how to work, or, having learned, they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems."
- "Its capacity rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum capacity was 200 tons per hour."
- "in my capacity as team captain"
Etymology
Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Archaic Latin kapiō Latin capiō Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ks Proto-Italic *-āks Latin -āx Latin capāx Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin capācitāsder. Old French capacitebor. Middle English capacite English capacity From Middle English capacite, from Old French capacite, from Latin capācitās (whence -acity), from capāx (“able to hold much”), from capiō (“to hold, to contain, to take, to understand”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kəˈpæsɪti/
- British English: /kəˈpæsɪti/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law, Physics.