reserve capacity

collocation in English

meaningsofreserveandcapacity

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reserve
noun
uk
/rɪˈzɜːv/us
/rɪˈzɝːv/
the habit of not showing your feelings ...
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capacity
noun
uk
/kəˈpæs.ə.ti/us
/kəˈpæs.ə.t̬i/
the total amount that can be contained ...
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(Definition ofreserveandcapacityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They suggested that there may be sufficientreservecapacityin the intestine, below the infected area, to ensure that overall absorption of nutrients remains normal.
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Thus, high case-fatality rate is, at least partially, due to decreased homeostaticreservecapacity.
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The reducedreservecapacityof the haematopoietic system makes it more susceptible to systemic insults.
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Although the colon normally absorbs about one to two litres, it has areservecapacityto absorb up to five litres.
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The patient may be unable to comply with a rehabilitation programme, or be placed at risk if physical exercise exceeds his or her cardiorespiratoryreservecapacity.
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The critical parameters in these risks are thereservecapacityof the heart, or rather the degree of incapacity, and the degree of arterial desaturation or cyanosis.
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Models of ageing processes are used to define vulnerable older people as those whosereservecapacity falls below the threshold needed to cope successfully with the challenges they face.
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In this paper, vulnerable older people are defined as those whosereservecapacityfalls below the threshold needed to cope successfully with the challenges that they face.
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When we needreservecapacity—perhaps most significantly for ammunition—we shall secure it.
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Now, we have no longer the concept of a war potential as needingreservecapacityavailable for rapid ex- pansion in time of war.
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Let us consider thereservecapacityin the tank factories.
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It has been suggested that future requirements will be secured by contract and thatreservecapacitycan similarly be secured.
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Indeed, it is very easy to have too much demand so that there is noreservecapacityavailable to take up and exploit new opportunities.
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However, ourreservecapacityand its scale needs urgent review, hence the call for a high-level inquiry.
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Thereservecapacityis for explosives, propellants and chemicals.
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We are producing 615,000 tons a year with areservecapacityof 2,500.
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Furthermore, a system using smaller generating sets must maintain a higherreservecapacity.
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One wonders whether areservecapacitycould be built up.
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If this ex- perience were not utilised to the full in areservecapacity, we should be anxious about it.
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As regardsreservecapacity, if we needed this, we could, of course, secure it, but by specific contracts on the company, to replace existing arrangements.
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