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depth
English
Etymology
From Middle English depthe, from Old English *d?epþ (“depth”), from Proto-Germanic *diupiþ? (“depth”), equivalent to deep +? -th. Cognate with Scots deepth (“depth”), Saterland Frisian Djüpte (“depth”), West Frisian djipte (“depth”), Dutch diepte (“depth”), Low German Deepde (“depth”), Danish dybde (“depth”), Icelandic dýpt (“depth”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (diupiþa, “depth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?p?/
- Rhymes: -?p?
Noun
depth (countable and uncountable, plural depths)
- the vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
- Synonyms: deepness, lowness
- the distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet
- (figuratively) the intensity, complexity, strength, seriousness or importance of an emotion, situation, etc.
- lowness
- (computing, colors) the total palette of available colors
- (art, photography) the property of appearing three-dimensional
- (literary, usually in the plural) the deepest part (usually of a body of water)
- (literary, usually in the plural) a very remote part.
- the most severe part
- (logic) the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content
- (horology) a pair of toothed wheels which work together
- (aeronautics) the perpendicular distance from the chord to the farthest point of an arched surface
- (statistics) the lower of the two ranks of a value in an ordered set of values
Synonyms
- (deep place): abyss, bottom, bathos, nadir
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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capacity
English
Etymology
From Middle English capacite, from Old French capacite, from Latin cap?cit?s, from capax (“able to hold much”), from capi? (“to hold, to contain, to take, to understand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??pæs?ti/
Noun
capacity (countable and uncountable, plural 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 Thesaurus:skill
Derived terms
- capac
- capacitance
- capacitate
- capacitive
- capacitation
- capacitor
Translations
References
- capacity at OneLook Dictionary Search
Adjective
capacity
- 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
Further reading
- capacity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- capacity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- capacity at OneLook Dictionary Search
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