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carrying capacities

carrying capacities is the plural of carrying capacity.

Meaning of carrying capacity

Noun

carrying capacity (plural carrying capacities)

  1. The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry.
  2. The number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support.
    • With their populations adjusted to the carrying capacity of the environment, hunters and gatherers rarely starve, for they are not dependent on the fortunes of a single crop.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 120

Questions about carrying capacities

What is carrying capacities the plural of?
Carrying capacities is the plural of carrying capacity.

Words near carrying capacities in the dictionary

  1. carrying a tune
  2. carrying all before one
  3. carrying away
  4. carrying basket
  5. carrying baskets
  6. carrying capacities
  7. carrying capacity
  8. carrying coals to Newcastle
  9. carrying conviction
  10. carrying corn
  11. carrying everything before one

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