Capacity vs Tolerance - What's the difference?
capacity | tolerance |
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,
(uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
(uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
(uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
(countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
(uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
As nouns the difference between capacity and tolerance
is that capacity is the ability to hold, receive or absorb while tolerance is the ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.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.
