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Etymology

< Middle English poer < Old French poer < Mediaeval Latin *potere, for Latin posse (“‘to be able’”); see potent.

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Noun

Singular power

Plural countable and uncountable; plural powers

power (countable and uncountable; plural powers)

  1. (countable) Ability or capability; control or influence.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book III, chapter ii
      An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book III, chapter iii
      Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace. ... The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace.
    • 2005, Columbia Law Review, April
      In the face of expanding federal power, California in particular struggled to maintain control over its Chinese population.
  2. (uncountable) Physical force or strength.
    He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.
  3. (uncountable) Electricity or a supply of electricity.
    After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.
  4. (uncountable, physics) A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
  5. (uncountable, physics) A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror.
    We need a microscope with higher power.
  6. (Biblical) In Christian angelology, the fourth level of angels, ranked above archangels and below principalities
  7. (mathematics) A product of equal factors. Notation and usage: xn, read as "x to the power of n" or "x to the nth power", denotes x × x × ... × x, in which x appears n times, where n is called the exponent; the definition is extended to non-integer and complex exponents.
  8. (set theory) Cardinality.
  9. (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Verb

Infinitive to power

Third person singular powers

Simple past powered

Past participle powered

Present participle powering

to power (third-person singular simple present powers, present participle powering, simple past and past participle powered)

  1. (transitive) To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
    This CD player is powered by batteries.

Derived terms

Translations

provide power for
  • Japanese: 供給する (kyokyū-suru)
  • Macedonian: напојува mk(mk) (napójuva)
  • Slovene: napajati

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