Capacity

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Capacity is the ability to hold, receive or absorb, or a measure thereof, similar to the concept of volume.

Capacity may also refer to:

• Capacity (economics), the point of production at which a firm or industry's average (or "per-unit") costs begin to rise, usually because some factor is fixed (often capital or land).
• Capacity (law), the legal ability to engage in certain acts, such as making a contract.
• In decision theory, a capacity is a subjective measure of likelihood of an event, similar to a membership function in fuzzy logic.
• Capacity of a set — including the notions of condenser, harmonic and Newtonian capacity

[edit] See also

• Capacitor
• Absorptive capacity
• Analytic capacity
• Carrying capacity
• Channel capacity
• Cranial capacity
• Diffusion capacity
• Heat capacity
• Seating capacity
• Toxic capacity
• Evolving capacities
• Capacity management
• Capacity utilization
• Capacity (company) - a company that works on 3D

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