### ability | capability:

Capacity
* Capacities are a person s ability or capacity to experience or express something.
* Most capacity relates to thermal conductivity.
* depends on factors.
* familiar concept to the medical profession.
* improves ability.
* includes analyses.
* influences characteristics.
  - determined by the amount of instruments and equipment needed
  - functions
* is measured in liters
  - units called bits, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes
  - production
  - simply the amount of water that the humidifier or vaporizer holds
* is the amount of data that the drive can store, after formatting
  - most important variable when estimating volumes on congested highways
  - potential to do something
* is the power of either an organization or individual to perform or to produce
  - to receive training or instruction
  - prospect's financial ability to give
  - size of the tube
  - tolerance
* measure of how much data a hard drive, or any other storage medium, can store.
* refers to uncompressed, nominal capacity.
* reflects productivity.
* relates to conductivity
* variable element that is affected by both seasonal demand and business cycles.

### ability | capability | capacity:

Assimilative capacity
* is the ability of a river basin to safely absorb pollutants.
* refers to the degree that a particular environment can reduce contamination.

Battery capacity
* is about half that of an alkaline cell
  - expressed in ampere-hours
* is measured in amp hours
  - talk time or standby time

Heat capacity
* Heat capacities depend upon the manner in which they are measured.
* Most heat capacity relates to conductivity
* belongs to the properties which are least affected by high pressures.
* is kind of like density.
* is the amount of energy for a substance to change in temperature
  - change in heat divided by the change in temperature
  - quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of an object by one degree
* measure of how much heat a material can hold.

Human capacity
* begins with basic education and literacy.
* has both personal and social relevance.
* is an often-neglected component of building a digital society.

Lung capacity
* is increased by arm movements.
* tends to decline in old age.

Managerial capacity
* is an important factor that involves education, experience and motivation.
* refers to the system s institutional and administrative capabilities.

Mental capacity
* Mental capacities vary.
* is decision-specific rather than all or nothing
  - intelligence
  - lost and the ability to recognize the loss

Physiological capacity
* All physiological capacities have a limited level of development.
* Most physiological capacities are dependent upon body and system dimensions.
* Physiological capacities achieve ceiling levels in a relatively short period of time.

Vital capacity
* decreases with age.
* equals total lung capacity.
* is capacity
  - diagnostic tests
  - directly proportional to the total number of alveoli in a person's lung
  - maximum volume of air that can be moved in and out during a single breath
  - related to age, height, and gender
* is the largest amount of air that can be exhaled after taking a deep breath
  - maximum volume that can be expired after a maximal inspiration
* tends to increase with height.

Cognitive ability
* Cognitive abilities are relatively stable and change very slowly.
* influences outcomes.

Contractility
* is ability
  - also a model for biological energy transduction and enzymology in general
* is the ability to shorten and thicken after sufficient stimulus
  - inherent ability of the myocardial cell to contract

### ability | contractility:

Astringency
* Astringencies are contractility
  - taste
* is contractility
  - removed by cooking, and choke cherries make tasty pie-fillings, sauces and wine
* sensation or feeling, a dry, puckery feeling in the mouth.