capacity

In a sentence

Six example sentences with capacity, each labelled with its topic.

• The renovated hall has a seated capacity of nine hundred, and the fire code will not permit one extra chair.

  Architecture

• After the illness the patient's lungs held roughly half their former capacity, so one flight of stairs became exhausting.

  Medicine

• Working memory has a narrow capacity, which is why most people lose a phone number while reaching for a pen.

  Psychology

• Factories were running at ninety-five percent of capacity, which is why prices rose when orders climbed further.

  Economics

• The server reached capacity twenty minutes after tickets went on sale, and every later request simply timed out.

  Technology

• The reservoir is at full capacity after the spring rains, so engineers are releasing water downstream every night.

  Environment

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