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carrying capacity

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The maximum number of persons or things that a vehicle or a receptacle can carry.
  • noun Ecology The maximum number of individuals that a given environment can support without detrimental effects.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry
  • noun The number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support

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