capacity
• noun (pl. capacities) 1 the maximum amount that something can contain or produce. 2 before another noun fully occupying the available space: a capacity crowd. 3 the total cylinder volume that is swept by the pistons in an internal-combustion engine. 4 the ability or power to do something. 5 a specified role or position: I was engaged in a voluntary capacity. — ORIGIN Latin capacitas, from capere ‘take or hold’.
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