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power
/ˈpaʊ̯.ɚ/
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What does power mean?
noun
- The ability to do or undergo something.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- The ability to affect or influence.
More meanings (27)
noun
- The ability or authority to control, govern, command, coerce, etc., such as in a legal, political or business sphere.
- The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
- A strong or influential nation, company, or other such body.
- Physical force or strength.
- Designating one who does something forcefully or on a large or grand scale.
- The production or flow of energy providing means to do work; energy per time unit.
- Electricity or a supply of electricity.
- The rate at which work is done or energy is transferred, expressed in units of energy per unit of time.
- The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
- A large amount or number.
- Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
- A tractor.
- A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
- A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x×x×⋯×x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
- Cardinality.
- The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
- In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
- A bonus point awarded for answering correctly before a certain part of the tossup is read.
- A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up.
- (archaic) An army, a military force.
verb
- To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
- To hit or kick something forcefully.
- To enable or provide the impetus for.
- To move or advance with great force or speed.
adjective
- Impressive.
interjection
- Used as a cheer to express support
proper noun
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpaʊ̯.ɚ/
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And now, O king, we do not believe that a man has such great power, for we know he cannot be slain.
Stability, on the contrary, requires that the hands in which power is lodged should continue for a length of time the same.
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I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man.
Like exceptional emphasis in the tone of a genius, that which would have made mediocrity ridiculous was an addition to recognized power.
But now some god and an infatuate soul Have stirred betwixt them a mad rivalry To grasp at sovereignty and kingly power.