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Capacity vs Output - What's the difference?

capacity | output |

As nouns the difference between capacity and output

is that capacity is the ability to hold, receive or absorb while output is production; quantity produced, created, or completed.

As an adjective capacity

is filling the allotted space.

As a verb output is

to produce, create, or complete.

capacity

English

Noun

(capacities)
  • The ability to hold, receive or absorb
  • A measure of such ability; volume
  • The maximum amount that can be held
    • It was hauling a capacity load.
    The orchestra played to a capacity crowd.
  • 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.
    • Its capacity''' rating was 150 tons per hour, but its actual maximum '''capacity was 200 tons per hour.

    Synonyms

    * throughput * See also

    Derived terms

    * capacitance * capacitation * capacitor

    Adjective

  • Filling the allotted space.
    • There will be a capacity crowd at Busch stadium for the sixth game.
  • * 2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, 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.

    Related terms

    * capacious

    External links

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    output

    English

    (wikipedia output)

    Noun

  • (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer.

    • Related terms

    * input

    Verb

  • (economics) to produce, create, or complete.
    • We output 1400 units last year.
  • (computing) to send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer.
    • When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

    Anagrams

    * English verbs with base form identical to past participle