{
  "id": "energy.capacity",
  "term": "energy",
  "sense": "capacity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 0,
  "arena": "E0",
  "domain": "foundation",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "That by which things can be not as they were.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": null,
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster released radiation after tsunami waters disabled backup generators.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Photosynthesis in spinach leaves converts sunlight into chemical bonds, powering growth.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider accelerates protons to 6.5 TeV, enabling observation of particle decay.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "ability.capacity",
    "audio.auditory",
    "auto.vehicle",
    "black.color",
    "car.transport",
    "charged.electrical",
    "color.visual",
    "create.production",
    "current.fluid",
    "device.tool",
    "drive.vehicle",
    "dropping-balls.capacity",
    "effort.general",
    "electricity.electrical",
    "engine.tool",
    "english.language",
    "fire.combustion",
    "food.nutrient",
    "health.condition",
    "healthy.condition",
    "heat.thermal",
    "hitting-the-wall.threshold",
    "hot.temperature",
    "image.visual",
    "interaction.process",
    "life.biological",
    "light.visual",
    "machine.constructed-system",
    "material.physical",
    "matter.substance",
    "mind.cognitive",
    "music.auditory",
    "oil.fuel",
    "photo.visual",
    "plug.electrical",
    "possible.potential",
    "power.energy",
    "red.color",
    "run.movement",
    "silver.metal",
    "socket.electrical",
    "soft.physical",
    "spread-too-thin.capacity",
    "star.celestial",
    "stretched-thin.capacity",
    "sun.celestial",
    "thermal.heat",
    "treading-water.upkeep",
    "weather.atmospheric",
    "work.effort"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "energy"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "hand",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 1.0
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-energy.capacity"
}