Power

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  • noun. The ability or capacity to act or do something effectively.
  • noun. A specific capacity, faculty, or aptitude.
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  • noun. Physical strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted: synonym: strength.
  • noun. Effectiveness at moving one's emotions or changing how one thinks.
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  • noun. The ability or official capacity to exercise control; authority.
  • noun. The military strength or economic or political influence of a nation or other group.
  • noun. A country, nation, or other political unit having great influence or control over others.
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  • noun. A supernatural being.
  • noun. The sixth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.
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  • noun. The energy or motive force by which a physical system or machine is operated.
  • noun. The capacity of a system or machine to operate.
  • noun. Electrical or mechanical energy, especially as used to assist or replace human energy.
  • noun. Electricity supplied to a home, building, or community.
  • noun. The rate at which work is done, expressed as the amount of work per unit time and commonly measured in units such as the watt and horsepower.
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  • noun. The product of applied potential difference and current in a direct-current circuit.
  • noun. The product of the effective values of the voltage and current with the cosine of the phase angle between current and voltage in an alternating-current circuit.
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  • noun. The number of elements in a finite set.
  • noun. In a statistical test, the probability of correctly rejecting the null hypothesis when it is false.
  • noun. A measure of the magnification of an optical instrument, such as a microscope or telescope.
  • noun. A large number or amount.
  • noun. An armed force.
  • adjective. Of or relating to political, social, or economic control.
  • adjective. Operated with mechanical or electrical energy in place of bodily exertion.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the generation or transmission of electricity.
  • adjective. Of or relating to influential business or professional practices.
  • transitive verb. To supply with power, especially mechanical or electrical power.
  • idiom. (powers that be) Those who hold effective power in a system or situation.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An obsolete form of poor.
  • An obsolete form of pour.
  • To furnish with power, specifically with motive power.
  • noun. A small codfish, Gadus minutus, called also power-cod.
  • noun. In geometry: The power of a point A with respect to a point-pair PP′ costraight with it is the product of the two sects from it to the pair—positive if it is on the same side of them, negative if it is between them. If m is the sect from A to the midpoint M of the sect PP′ , and h half the sect PP′ , then AP.AP′ = (m + h)(m—h) = m—h. This power is null if A coincides with P or P′ .
  • noun. The power of one point with respect to another is the square of the sect between them.
  • noun. The power of a point with respect to a straight is the perpendicular from the point to the straight.
  • noun. The power of a point with respect to a sphere or circle is its power with respect to a point-pair costraight with it and on the sphere or circle.
  • noun. The square on the center-sect of two circles less the squares on their radii is the power of the two circles, or the power of one circle with respect to the other.
  • noun. In the theory of assemblages: If the aggregates or sets A and B are equivalent they are said to have the same power.
  • noun. A transfinite cardinal.
  • noun. In general, such an absence of external restriction and limitation that it depends only upon the inward determination of the subject whether or not it will act.
  • noun. An endowment of a voluntary being whereby it becomes possible for that being to do or effect something.
  • noun. A property of an inanimate thing or agency, especially a property of modifying other things.
  • noun. Used absolutely, with specification of the effect: The property whereby anything fulfils its proper functions well or strongly: as, a medicine of great power.
    • Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    impotence  weakness  
    Equivalent
    power press  
    Form
    empower  power down  power up  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    strength  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Auer  Bower  Gower  bower  cower  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Asia  Life  Powers  account  agent  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Establishment  VIP  ability  able  absolute power  
    variant
    poor  
    verb-form
    powered  powering  powers  
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