The specific amount of pressure, stress or load that can be placed on a machine or equipment and it still work properly.

CRP, used in manufacturing (MRP), is a technique for projecting resource requirements for critical work stations, generated from scheduled receipts and planned order releases.

A metric used to measure the rate at which potential output levels are being met or used. Displayed as a percentage, capacity utilization levels give insight into the overall slack […]

The difference in gain or loss in a given period compared to budgeted expectations, caused because the hours worked were longer or shorter than planned.

A concept in economics which refers to the extent to which an enterprise or a nation actually uses its installed productive capacity.

The percentage of the economy’s total plant and equipment that is currently in production. Usually, a decrease in this percentage signals an economic slowdown, while an increase signals economic expansion.

Lat. Capable of committing crime, or capable of criminal intent . The phrase describes the condition of one who has sufficient intelligence and comprehension to be held criminally responsible for […]

Competent to transact affairs; having business capacity.

In English practice. A judicial writ touching a plea of lands or tenements, divided into cape magnum, or the grand cape, which lay before appearance to summon the tenant to […]

A species of cane magnum.

In old records. A box, cabinet, or repository in which were preserved the relics of martyrs. Spelman. A small building in which relics were preserved; an oratory or chapel. Id. […]

Vessels of war owned by private persons, and different from ordinary privateers only in size, being smaller. Beawes, Lex Merc. 230.

Lat. “That you take.” The general name for several species of writs, the common characteristic of which is that they require the officer to take the body of the defendant […]

A writ issued, in a case of misdemeanor , after the defendant has appeared and is found guilty , to bring him to hear judgment if he is not present […]

In the action of account render, after judgment of quod computet , if the defendant refuses to appear personally before the auditors and make his account, a writ by this […]

A judicial writ, (usually simply termed a “capias,”) by which actions at law were frequently commenced; and which commands the sheriff to take the defendant, and him safely keep, so […]

A writ of execution , (usually termed, for brevity, a “ca. sa.,”) which a party may issue after having recovered judgment against another in certain actions at law. It commands […]

A writ of execution issuable in England against a debtor to the crown, which commands the sheriff to “take” or arrest the body, and “cause to be extended” the lands […]

A writ, in the nature of a reprisal, which lies for one whose goods or cattle, taken under a distress, are removed from the county, so that they cannot be […]

(That you take for the fine or in mercy.) Formerly, if the verdict was for the defendant, the plaintiff was adjudged to be amerced for his false claim ; but. […]

(You take the outlaw.) In English practice. A writ which lies against a person who has been outlawed in an action, by which the sheriff is commanded to take him, […]

(Let him be taken for the fine.) In English practice. A clause inserted at the end of old judgment records in actions of debt, where the defendant denied his deed, […]

Ileails, and, figuratively, entire bodies, whether of persons or animals. Spelman. Persons individually considered, without relation to others, (polls;) as distinguished from stirpes or stocks of descent. The term in […]

By heads; by the poll; as individuals. In the distribution of an intestate’s personalty , the persons legally entitled to take are said to take per capita when they claim, […]

The most important city or town of a country or region, usually its seat of government and administrative center or wealth in the form of money or other assets owned […]