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the ceiling you mistake for the floor right before you blow past it.
means The maximum amount something can hold, produce, or handle — or a person's ability to do, contain, or experience something.
from From Latin 'capacitas,' meaning roominess or the power to hold, built on 'capax' (able to hold much), which traces back to the verb 'capere' — to take, to grasp, to seize. That same hungry little root spawned a whole clan: 'capture,' 'capable,' 'receive,' even 'catch.' The image underneath it all is an open hand or vessel, measured by how much it can take in before it overflows.
- lung trick
- Free divers expand lung capacity by gulping air like inflating balloons
- battery lie
- Phone batteries lose capacity every charge, never the full number again
- crowd math
- Stadium capacity assumes everyone behaves, which they never do
- brain myth
- No real evidence memory has a maximum storage limit
three gorges dam — world's largest hydroelectric dam with 22,500 mw capacity on the yangtze river, china
rose bowl stadium — college football stadium in pasadena with 90,888 seat capacity
mauna kea observatory — hawaii's telescope facility at 13,796 feet with capacity to detect objects 13 billion light-years away