carrying capacity
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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
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number of individuals that an environment can support
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See also
Further reading
carrying capacity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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