{
  "id": "capacity.size",
  "term": "capacity",
  "sense": "size",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "capacity",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "the maximum load that a thing can have while its parameter stays inside the window",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "wall.range-end",
      "inside.spatial",
      "persist.continue",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "The condition of a thing changes over time, and its parameter moves within a range; when the parameter reaches the end of the window, the thing no longer persists; the capacity is the greatest load the thing can bear while still remaining within that window.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "maximum sustainable load",
      "threshold of persistence",
      "temporal endurance under condition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Fukushima Daiichi plant's cooling system failed when tsunami waves exceeded the 5.7-meter seawall, flooding backup generators.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 Beirut port explosion occurred after 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate exceeded safe storage limits over six years.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Bitcoin network processes about 7 transactions per second, constrained by the 1-megabyte block size limit.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "ability.capacity",
    "burnout.capacity",
    "health.condition",
    "hot.temperature",
    "maxed-out.threshold",
    "plate-is-full.capacity",
    "power.energy",
    "store.place",
    "stretched-thin.capacity",
    "surplus.excess"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "capacities",
    "capacity"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition corrected for factual accuracy: original definition incorrectly implied a window is defined for the load parameter, rather than for a distinct parameter whose limits define when the thing c"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-capacity.size"
}