field capacity

1. 1.

   the maximum amount of water that a particular soil can hold

   Broadervolume unit

Questions about field capacity

What does field capacity mean?

field capacity means "the maximum amount of water that a particular soil can hold".

Is field capacity a common word?

field capacity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.