Definition of Capacities

1. Noun. (plural of capacity) ¹

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Definition of Capacities

1. capacity [n] - See also: capacity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Capacities

capaciously
capaciousness
capaciousnesses
capacitance
capacitance flicker
capacitance unit
capacitances
capacitary
capacitated
capacitates
capacitating
capacitations
capacitative
capacities (current term)
capacitive
capacitively
capacitor
capacitor microphone
capacitor plague
capacitors
capacity
capacity factor
capacity measure
capacity unit
capacity utilization
capacity utilization rate
capacocha
capacochas

Literary usage of Capacities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of Language-study by Harold E. Palmer (1921)
"We shall see later by what means we may awaken our latent capacities and cause them to become active, and, incidentally, how we can exercise ourselves to ..."

2. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"The rights and duties capacities and incapacities, constituting a status, commonly impart to the party invested with them a conspicuous character, ..."

3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1794)
"... a Duty upon all Servants retained or employed in the federal capacities therein men-* ... or lhall be, retained in one or more of the faid capacities, ..."

4. Transactions by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1916)
"ENGINES IN UNITS OF SMALL capacities By JS Barstow,1 Philadelphia, Pa. Non-Member The term "units of small capacities" as used herein is intended to include ..."

5. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"SENSORY capacities To certain situations man responds originally by special changes in the first sensory neurones and, through these, by special changes in ..."

6. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William M. Lacy (1889)
"Of the powers and capacities of corporations. When a corporation is duly created, many powers, rights, and capacities are annexed to it. ..."

7. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"Does he doubt the agricultural capacities of the country ? I understand him to go the whole length of his friends, the friends of this resolution, ..."

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