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Consider searching for the individual words capacity, or assignment.
Dictionary Results for capacity:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
capacity
    n 1: capability to perform or produce; "among his gifts is his
         capacity for true altruism"; "limited runway capacity"; "a
         great capacity for growth" [ant: incapacity]
    2: the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment;
       "the capability of a metal to be fused" [syn: capability,
       capacity]
    3: the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank has a
       capacity of 12 gallons" [syn: capacity, content]
    4: the maximum production possible; "the plant is working at 80
       per cent capacity"
    5: a specified function; "he was employed in the capacity of
       director"; "he should be retained in his present capacity at
       a higher salary"
    6: (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"
    7: an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
       [syn: capacitance, electrical capacity, capacity]
    8: the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability
       to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
       [syn: capacity, mental ability] [ant: incapacity]
    9: tolerance for alcohol; "he had drunk beyond his capacity"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Capacity \Ca*pac"i*ty\ (k[.a]*p[a^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl.
   Capacities (-t[i^]z). [L. capacitus, fr. capax, capacis;
   fr. F. capacit['e]. See Capacious.]
   1. The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or
      space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical
      things.
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            Had our great palace the capacity
            To camp this host, we all would sup together.
                                                  --Shak.
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            The capacity of the exhausted cylinder. --Boyle.
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   2. The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.;
      the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty;
      capability of understanding or feeling.
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            Capacity is now properly limited to these [the mere
            passive operations of the mind]; its primary
            signification, which is literally room for, as well
            as its employment, favors this; although it can not
            be denied that there are examples of its usage in an
            active sense.                         --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.
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   3. Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the
      possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of
      being or of doing.
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            The capacity of blessing the people.  --Alex.
                                                  Hamilton.
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            A cause with such capacities endued.  --Blackmore.
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   4. Outward condition or circumstances; occupation;
      profession; character; position; as, to work in the
      capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
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   5. (Law) Legal or moral qualification, as of age, residence,
      character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for
      holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, wills,
      etc.; legal power or right; competency.
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   Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing heat. Substances
      differ in the amount of heat requisite to raise them a
      given number of thermometric degrees, and this difference
      is the measure of, or depends upon, what is called their
      capacity for heat. See Specific heat, under Heat.

   Syn: Ability; faculty; talent; capability; skill; efficiency;
        cleverness. See Ability.
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3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
capacity

    The maximum possible data transfer rate of
   a communications channel under ideal conditions.  The total
   capacity of a channel may be shared between several
   independent data streams using some kind of multiplexing, in
   which case, each stream's data rate may be limited to a fixed
   fraction of the total capacity.

   (2001-05-22)


4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
CAPACITY. This word, in the law sense, denotes some ability, power, 
qualification, or competency of persons, natural, or artificial, for the 
performance of civil acts, depending on their state or condition, as defined 
or fixed by law; as, the capacity to devise, to bequeath, to grant or convey 
lands; to take; or to take. and hold lands to make a contract, and the like. 
2 Com. Dig. 294; Dane's Abr. h.t. 
     2. The constitution requires that the president, senators, and 
representatives should have attained certain ages; and in the case of the 
senators and representatives, that out these they have no capacity to serve 
in these offices. 
     3. All laws which regulate the capacity of persons to contract, are 
considered personal laws; such are the laws which relate to minority and 
majority; to the powers of guardians or parents, or the disabilities of 
coverture. The law of the domicil generally governs in cases of this kind. 
Burge. on Sureties, 89. 



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