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Capacity
Credit grantors' measurement of a person's ability to repay loans.

Capacity
The theoretical maximum number of products a company can produce at a given time. For example, an oil pump may have a capacity of X barrels per day, meaning that it cannot produce more than X. Companies rarely operate at full capacity, both to allow themselves leeway in the event of increased demand and because capacity may not be possible at a given time because of worker illness, machinery maintenance, or other reasons.

capacity

The legal ability of parties to enter into contracts.
• Full capacity. Having unlimited ability to enter into binding contracts of all types.
• Limited capacity. Having the ability to enter into binding contracts for certain things, such as a minor's contracts for necessities, but also having the ability to disaffirm other contracts upon reaching legal age, for example.
• No capacity. Having no ability to enter into contracts, such as one who has been adjudicat- ed as mentally incompetent.



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The inspiratory limb of the flow volume loop should connect at total lung capacity to the beginning of the expiratory limb.
Thus, the total lung capacity of the human body for a normal individual is about 5 liters.
In general, restrictive impairment, orreduction of vital capacity (VC) and total lung capacity (TLC), is evident.
 
 
 
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