English
Noun
carrying capacity (plural carrying capacities)
- (transport) The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry.
- (ecology) The number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 120: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.
Derived terms
- K (the standard abbreviation)
Translations
number of people or things that a vehicle can carry
- Catalan: capacitat de càrrega f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 環境承載力 / 环境承载力 (huánjìng chéngzàilì)
- Danish: lasteevne c
- Finnish: kuljetuskyky
- French: capacité de charge (fr) f, capacité limite f, capacité de support f
- German: Transportkapazität f
- Indonesian: kapasitas angkat
- Malay: kapasiti angkut, kapasiti simpan, kapasiti pembawaan
- Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
- Portuguese: capacidade de carga f
- Romanian: capacitate de încărcare f
- Spanish: capacidad de carga f
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number of individuals that an environment can support
- Catalan: capacitat de càrrega f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 環境承載力 / 环境承载力 (huánjìng chéngzàilì)
- Danish: bæreevne c
- Finnish: kantokyky (fi)
- French: capacité porteuse f, capacité limite f, capacité de soutien f, capacité biotique f, capacité de support f
- German: Tragfähigkeit (de) f
- Indonesian: daya dukung (id), kapasitas dukung, kapasitas angkat, daya muat (id)
- Italian: capacità portante f
- Malay: kapasiti angkut, kapasiti simpan, kapasiti pembawaan
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bæreevne m or f
- Portuguese: capacidade de carga f
- Romanian: capacitate de susținere f
- Spanish: capacidad de persistencia f, capacidad de carga f
- Swedish: bärkraft (sv) c
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