The term "capacity" is needed to express a quantitative systemic feature. This can refer to diverse items, such as the carrying capacity of a membrane with respect to proteins, the capacity of high-energy phosphate bonds, or the maximal count of bacteria in the gut, etc.
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In short, the "capacity" can be describe as the total amount that can be contained or produced by a specific entity.
Dear Andreas,
Thank you for the term request. I have created a new term SBO:0000661 in response.