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carrying capacity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

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:

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Deriveds

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Relateds

overshoot · biocapacity · ecological footprint

Translations (39)

fi kantokyky (number of individuals that an environment can support) · ro capacitate de susținere (number of individuals that an environment can support) · fr capacité limite (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · fr capacité de soutien (number of individuals that an environment can support) · id daya muat (number of individuals that an environment can support) · de Transportkapazität (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · sv bärkraft (number of individuals that an environment can support) · cmn 環境承載力 /环境承载力 (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · cmn 環境承載力 /环境承载力 (number of individuals that an environment can support) · fr capacité de support (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · fr capacité limite (number of individuals that an environment can support) · it capacità portante (number of individuals that an environment can support) · fr capacité biotique (number of individuals that an environment can support) · ms kapasiti simpan (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · id kapasitas dukung (number of individuals that an environment can support) · id kapasitas angkat (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · ca capacitat de càrrega (number of individuals that an environment can support) · id kapasitas angkat (number of individuals that an environment can support) · es capacidad de persistencia (number of individuals that an environment can support) · ms kapasiti simpan (number of individuals that an environment can support) · ms kapasiti pembawaan (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · ms kapasiti angkut (number of individuals that an environment can support) · fi kuljetuskyky (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · es capacidad de carga (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · ca capacitat de càrrega (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · pt capacidade de carga (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · fr capacité de support (number of individuals that an environment can support) · nb bæreevne (number of individuals that an environment can support) · fr capacité porteuse (number of individuals that an environment can support) · de Tragfähigkeit (number of individuals that an environment can support) · pt capacidade de carga (number of individuals that an environment can support) · da bæreevne (number of individuals that an environment can support) · id daya dukung (number of individuals that an environment can support) · es capacidad de carga (number of individuals that an environment can support) · ro capacitate de încărcare (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · ms kapasiti pembawaan (number of individuals that an environment can support) · ms kapasiti angkut (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · fr capacité de charge (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry) · da lasteevne (number of people or things that a vehicle can carry)