Capacity vs Material - What's the difference?
capacity | material |
The ability to hold, receive or absorb
A measure of such ability; volume
The maximum amount that can be held
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.
Filling the allotted space.
* 2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited,
Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
* Whewell
Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
Significant.
* Evelyn
* John Locke
(senseid)Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
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, title= (senseid)Text written for a specific purpose.
(senseid)A sample or specimens for study.
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(senseid)Cloth to be made into a garment.
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(senseid)A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.
(senseid)Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The substance that something is made or composed of.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (obsolete) To form from matter; to materialize.
* Sir Thomas Browne
As nouns the difference between capacity and material
is that capacity is the ability to hold, receive or absorb while material is material (matter which may be shaped or manipulated).As an adjective capacity
is filling the allotted space.capacity
English
Noun
(capacities)- It was hauling a capacity load.
- The orchestra played to a capacity crowd.
- Its capacity''' rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum '''capacity was 200 tons per hour.
Synonyms
* throughput * See alsoDerived terms
* capacitance * capacitation * capacitorAdjective
- There will be a capacity crowd at Busch stadium for the sixth game.
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.
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
- the material elements of the universe
- Don't let material concerns get in the way of living a happy life.
- You've made several material contributions to this project.
- This is the most material fact in this lawsuit.
- discourse, which was always material , never trifling
- I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.
Antonyms
* (wordly) spiritual * (significant) immaterialDerived terms
* material breach * material cause * material girl * material worldNoun
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- With fresh material', taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the '''material''' examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium ' material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* materialism * materialist * material culture * material science * materials science * postmaterialism * postmaterialist * raw materialSee also
* materielVerb
(materiall)- I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life.