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FIELD CAPACITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does field capacity mean?
• FIELD CAPACITY (noun)
The noun FIELD CAPACITY has 1 sense:
1. the maximum amount of water that a particular soil can hold
Familiarity information: FIELD CAPACITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The maximum amount of water that a particular soil can hold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("field capacity" is a kind of...):
capacity measure; capacity unit; cubage unit; cubature unit; cubic content unit; cubic measure; displacement unit; volume unit (a unit of measurement of volume or capacity)
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