how to pronounce capacity

/kəˈpæsətiː/

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capacity is pronounced in four syllables

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kəpæsət

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An example use of capacity in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… probably be closer to capacity so let's …”

meaning of capacity

Capacity means the amount of space that something can hold or the amount of something that can be contained.

capacity frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word capacity occurs in english on average 22.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics capacity can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that capacity can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

words that rhyme with capacity

incapacityopacityvoracityovercapacityaudacity

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