Capacity

Capacity is the ability to hold a fluid, very similar to volume.

Famous quotes containing the word capacity:

“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)

“That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.”
—Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)

“Modern man’s capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity’s capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)

Related Subjects

Adaptive Capacity

Aerobic Capacity

Breeding Capacity Building

Capacity Building Branch

Capacity Credit

Capacity Management

Carrying Capacity

Cation Exchange Capacity

Channel Capacity

Depression Storage Capacity

Diffusing Capacity