capacity | a specified function, he was employed in the capacity of director, he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary |
capacity | the maximum production possible, the plant is working atper cent capacity |
overindulgence excess | excessive indulgence, the child was spoiled by overindulgence |
capacity | tolerance for alcohol, he had drunk beyond his capacity |
seating capacity | the number of people that can be seated in a vehicle or auditorium or stadium etc. |
excess excessiveness inordinateness | immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits |
excess surplus surplusage nimiety | a quantity much larger than is needed |
capacity | capability to perform or produce, among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism, limited runway capacity, a great capacity for growth |
brain brainpower learning ability mental capacity mentality wit | mental ability, he's got plenty of brains but no common sense |
capacity mental ability | the power to learn or retain knowledge, in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior |
capacitance electrical capacity capacity | an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored |
volume unit capacity unit capacity measure cubage unit cubic measure cubic content unit displacement unit cubature unit | a unit of measurement of volume or capacity |
British capacity unit Imperial capacity unit | a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System, British units are both dry and wet |
metric capacity unit | a capacity unit defined in metric terms |
field capacity | the maximum amount of water that a particular soil can hold |
capacity | (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive, the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes |
formatted capacity | (computer science) the usable capacity of a disk drive, the amount of space that is left after the sector headings and boundary definitions and timing information have been added by formatting the disk |
unformatted capacity | (computer science) the total number of bytes on a disk including the space that will be required to format it |
capacity content | the amount that can be contained, the gas tank has a capacity of gallons |
vital capacity | the maximum amount of air that can be exhaled after a maximum inhalation (usually tested with a spirometer), used to determine the condition of lung tissue |
surfeit excess overabundance | the state of being more than full |
capability capacity | the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment, the capability of a metal to be fused |
channel capacity | the maximum data rate that can be attained over a given channel |
excess extra redundant spare supererogatory superfluous supernumerary surplu | more than is needed, desired, or required, trying to lose excess weight, found some extra change lying on the dresser, yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant, skills made redundant by technological advance, sleeping in the spare room, supernumerary ornamentation, it was supererogatory of her to gloat, delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words, extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts, surplus cheese distributed to the needy |