Capacity

(noun.) a specified function; 'he was employed in the capacity of director'; 'he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary'.

(noun.) the maximum production possible; 'the plant is working at 80 per cent capacity'.

(noun.) tolerance for alcohol; 'he had drunk beyond his capacity'.

(noun.) capability to perform or produce; 'among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism'; 'limited runway capacity'; 'a great capacity for growth'.

(noun.) the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior.

(noun.) (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'.

(noun.) the amount that can be contained; 'the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons'.

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• It is, of course, arbitrary to separate industrial competency from capacity in good citizenship. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The newspapers had previously published articles showing the unusual capacity and performance of the battery, and public interest had thus been greatly awakened. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Social responsibility for the use of time and personal capacity is more generally recognized than it used to be. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This signifies the capacity to acquire habits, or develop definite dispositions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Such a creature as a reptile has in its brain a capacity for experience, but when the individual dies, its experience dies with it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Galileo soon thereafter greatly improved and increased its capacity, and was the first to direct it towards the heavens. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In the interests of renown the forwardness should lie chiefly in the capacity to handle things. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He asked to be relieved from further duty in the capacity in which he was engaged and his request was granted. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I thought you might be going there--oh, not in that capacity! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It is a thick skull, thicker than that of any living race of men, and it has a brain capacity intermediate between that of Pithecanthropus and man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At the end of 1909 the New York Edison Company alone was operating twenty-eight stations and substations, having a total capacity of 159,500 kilowatts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But I was resolved to fit the work as much as possible to the general capacity of readers. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The Sunbury generating plant consisted of an Armington & Sims engine driving two small Edison dynamos having a total capacity of about four hundred lamps of 16 c. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In those three capacities I speak with authority, with confidence, with honourable regret. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We are in our private and personal capacities, of course. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Tumbled together on the table are some pieces of iron, purposely broken to be tested at various periods of their service, in various capacities. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The spontaneous development of our organs and capacities constitutes the education of Nature. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Hence the need that the teacher know both subject matter and the characteristic needs and capacities of the student. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It must suggest the kind of environment needed to liberate and to organize their capacities. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• On the contrary, certain capacities of an individual are not brought out except under the stimulus of associating with others. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Active habits involve thought, invention, and initiative in applying capacities to new aims. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The discourse seemed well adapted to their capacities, and was delivered in a pleasing, familiar manner, coaxing them, as it were, to be good. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• What chance had Mr. Franklin--what chance had anybody of average reputation and capacities--against such a man as this? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• We are in our private and personal capacities, and we have been engaged in a confidential transaction before to-day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• To foresee a terminus of an act is to have a basis upon which to observe, to select, and to order objects and our own capacities. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In evoking dread and hope of specific tangible reward--say comfort and ease--many other capacities are left untouched. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But the doctrine does not determine what use shall be made of the capacities which exist. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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