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capacity
English
Etymology
From Middle English capacite, from Old French capacite, from Latin cap?cit?s, from capax (“able to hold much”), from capi? (“to hold, to contain, to take, to understand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??pæs?ti/
Noun
capacity (countable and uncountable, plural capacities)
- The ability to hold, receive or absorb
- A measure of such ability; volume
- The maximum amount that can be held
- It was hauling a capacity load.
- The orchestra played to a capacity crowd.
- Capability; the ability to perform some task
- The maximum that can be produced.
- Mental ability; the power to learn
- A faculty; the potential for growth and development
- A role; the position in which one functions
- Legal authority (to make an arrest for example)
- Electrical capacitance.
- (operations) The maximum that can be produced on a machine or in a facility or group.
- Its capacity rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum capacity was 200 tons per hour.
Synonyms
- throughput
- See also Thesaurus:skill
Derived terms
- capac
- capacitance
- capacitate
- capacitive
- capacitation
- capacitor
Translations
References
- capacity at OneLook Dictionary Search
Adjective
capacity
- Filling the allotted space.
- There will be a capacity crowd at Busch stadium for the sixth game.
- 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
- At an overcast Eton Dorney, roared on by a capacity crowd including Prince Harry and Prince William, the volume rose as they entered the final stages.
Related terms
- capacious
Further reading
- capacity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- capacity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- capacity at OneLook Dictionary Search
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volition
English
Etymology
From French volition, from Medieval Latin voliti? (“will, volition”), from Latin vol? (“to wish; to want; to mean or intend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh?- (“to choose; to want”)) + -ti? (“suffix forming nouns relating to some action or the result of an action”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tis (“suffix forming abstract or action nouns from verbs”)).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /v??l??(?)n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /vo??l??(?)n/
- Rhymes: -???n
- Hyphenation: vo?li?tion
Noun
volition (countable and uncountable, plural volitions)
- A conscious choice or decision. [from early 17th c.]
- The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.
- (linguistics) A concept that distinguishes whether or not the subject or agent intended something.
Derived terms
- volitional
- volitionally
Related terms
- voluntarism
- voluntarist
- volunteer
Translations
Further reading
- volition (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- volition (psychology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- volition (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- volition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- volition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin voliti? (“will, volition”), from Latin vol? (“I wish, I will”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v?.li.sj??/
Noun
volition f (plural volitions)
- (philosophy, psychology) volition
See also
- volonté
Further reading
- “volition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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