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capacitating

capacitating is the present participle and gerund of capacitate.

Meaning of capacitate

Verb

capacitate (third-person singular simple present capacitates, present participle capacitating, simple past and past participle capacitated)

  1. (transitive) To make capable of functioning in a given capacity.
    • By this instruction we may be capacitated to observe those errors.1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To alter sperm to allow it to fertilize eggs.
  3. (transitive) To reach maximum throughput on at least part of a constrained network.

Questions about capacitating

What is capacitating the present participle and gerund of?
Capacitating is the present participle and gerund of capacitate.

Words near capacitating in the dictionary

  1. capacitances
  2. capacitary
  3. capacitate
  4. capacitated
  5. capacitates
  6. capacitating
  7. capacitation
  8. capacitations
  9. capacitative
  10. capacitatively
  11. capacitator

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