title: Capacity
text: # Capacity
  
  Capacity or capacities may refer to:
  
  ## Mathematics, science, and engineering
  
  * Capacity of a container, closely related to the volume of the container
  * Capacity of a set, in Euclidean space, the total charge a set can hold while maintaining a given potential energy
  * Capacity factor, the ratio of the actual output of a power plant to its theoretical potential output
  * Storage capacity (energy), the amount of energy that the storage system of a power plant can hold
  * Nameplate capacity, the intended full-load sustained output of a facility such as a power plant
  * Heat capacity, a measurement of changes in a system's internal energy
  * Combining capacity, another term for valence in chemistry
  * Battery capacity, the amount of electric charge a battery can deliver at the rated voltage
  
  ## Computer
  
  * Data storage capacity, amount of stored information that a storage device or medium can hold
  * Channel capacity, the highest rate at which information can be reliably transmitted
  
  ## Social
  
  * Carrying capacity, the population size of a species that its environment can sustain
  * Capacity planning, the process of determining the production resources needed to meet product demand
  * Capacity building, strengthening the skills, competencies and abilities of developing societies
  * Productive capacity, the maximum possible output of an economy
  * Capacity management, a process used to manage information technology in business
  * Capacity utilization, the extent to which an enterprise or a nation uses its theoretical productive capacity
  * Road capacity, the maximum traffic flow rate that theoretically may be attained on a given road
  * Seating capacity, the number of people who can be seated in a specific space
  
  ## Legal
  
  * Capacity (law), the capability and authority to undertake a legal action
  
  ## Arts
  
  * Capacities (album), an album by Up Dharma Down
  * Capacity (album), an album by Big Thief
  