capacity
/kəˈpæs.ə.ti/(noun)
AWL Sublist 5CEFR B2IELTS Band 7.0 - 9.0
Academic Definition
The maximum amount that something can contain or produce; the ability or power to do or experience something.
Key Academic Collocations
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capacitycapacitiesincapacitateincapacitated
Lexical Alternatives (Synonyms)
volumecapabilitypotentialcompetencethreshold
Academic Sample Sentences in Context
"The bar chart shows that regional container ports operated at 115% of designed physical capacity during the holiday quarter."
"Expanding renewable electrical generation capacity requires substantial national investments in high-voltage transmission grids."
"Human cognitive capacity for processing simultaneous auditory stimuli is fundamentally constrained by biological working memory limits."
IELTS Examiner Scoring Strategy (Lexical Resource)
Used in both Task 1 ('operating at full capacity') and Task 2 ('the government's institutional capacity to respond').