Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

carrying capacity

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English

Syllables
car-ry-ing -ca-pac-i-ty
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
7
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry.

noun

The number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

carrying capacities (plural)

Derived Forms

K

Phrases

ecological footprint

Frequently Paired Words

biocapacity ecological footprint overshoot

Questions

What does carrying capacity mean?
The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry.

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