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  • 11capacity — I. noun (plural ties) Etymology: Middle English capacite, from Middle French capacité, from Latin capacitat , capacitas, from capac , capax Date: 15th century 1. legal competency or fitness < capacity to stand trial > 2. a. the potential or&#8230; …

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  • 12capacity*/ — [kəˈpæsəti] noun 1) [C/U] the amount of something that can be put in a container, or the number of people that a place has room for a concert hall with a seating capacity of 800[/ex] All the country s prisons are filled to capacity (= completely&#8230; …

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  • 13filled to utmost capacity — index full Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 14capacity — ca|pac|i|ty [ kə pæsəti ] noun count or uncount *** 1. ) the amount of something that can be put in a container or the number of people that a place has room for: capacity of: The fuel tanks have a capacity of 25,000 gallons. a concert hall with&#8230; …

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  • 15Filled — Fill Fill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filling}.] [OE. fillen, fullen, AS. fyllan, fr. full full; akin to D. vullen, G. f[ u]llen, Icel. fylla, Sw. fylla, Dan. fylde, Goth. fulljan. See {Full}, a.] 1. To make full; to supply&#8230; …

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  • 16capacity — Synonyms and related words: IQ, SRO, ability, ableness, accommodation, acumen, address, adeptness, adequacy, adroitness, airmanship, amplitude, apprehension, aptitude, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, bellyful, bent, brains, bravura, brilliance …

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  • 17filled — Synonyms and related words: SRO, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock full, chuck full, congested, cram full, crammed, farci, flush, full, full to bursting, jam packed, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary …

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  • 18ability, capacity — Ability means the physical, mental, financial, or legal power to do something (ability to walk, to read, to pay a bill, to assess property). Capacity is the ability to hold, absorb, or contain (a bucket with a capacity of 1 gallon, a motel filled …

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  • 19Breaking capacity of fuses — The breaking capacity gives the current that a fuse is able to interrupt without being destroyed or causing an electric arc with unacceptable duration. The maximum short circuit current which can occur under fault conditions should not exceed the …

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  • 20Total iron-binding capacity — is a medical laboratory test which measures the extent to which iron binding sites in the serum can be saturated. Of the large amount of iron that is stored in the body, only a small fraction is actually transported in the serum. The protein that …

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