Answer the following question given this paragraph: 

The amount of charge, , held by each plate is given by where again is the voltage difference between the plates and is the capacitance of the plate configuration. Capacitance can be thought of as the capacity a device has for storing charge . In the parallel plate case the capacitance is given by where is the area of the plates, is the distance between the plates, and is the permittivity of free space whose value is .


Q: What can be thought of as the capacity a device has for storing charge?


A:
capacitance