power (original) (raw)
power noun (ABILITY)
power noun (ENERGY)
[ U ] physics specialized
power noun (IMAGE SIZE)
power noun (MATHEMATICS)
[ S ] mathematics specialized
to the third, fourth, etc. power 2 to the fourth power is 2 times 2 times 2 times 2, which equals 16.
to the power 3 to the power 4 is usually written as 34.
Idioms
power verb (ENERGY)
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power verb (STRENGTH)
Halfway through, she powered into the lead and went on to win the race.
She powered her return past Fernandez who had come to the net.
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Phrasal verbs
power adjective [before noun] (MACHINE)
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power adjective [before noun] (PERSON)
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(Definition of power from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
power | American Dictionary
power noun (CONTROL)
power noun (PERSON WHO CONTROLS)
power noun (NATURAL ABILITY)
power noun (STRENGTH)
power noun (ENERGY)
power noun (MATHEMATICS)
[ U ] mathematics specialized
Three to the fourth power can be written 34.
power noun (NATION)
[ C ] world history us/ˈpɑʊ·ər/
power verb [T] (ENERGY)
Phrasal verb
(Definition of power from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of power
power
With pretense, disguise, and unreflective belief in disinterested philosophical analysis, philosophers can easily objectify the interests of certain power groups, whether scientific or political.
Structural consistency is an example of a strong rule that has the power to invalidate changes that yield physically unsupportable designs.
The users of the water invested the communal power with the duty of protecting them against usurpers' efforts to divert the water.
As a result, returning refugees introduced new power objects that they carried with them from the localities where they had found refuge.
The specific power deposition must be reduced to avoid destruction of the target.
Indeed, the wish to avoid such veto power may both contribute to surplus coalitions and to grand coalitions between major parties.
Both models suggest that innovation is rarely a successful strategy for parties out of power.
Clearly, for values of around 1, this cannot be expected because past inflation has almost no predictive power.
The increase of voltage resulted in a sharp increase of the radiation power.
This considerably reduces the inherent power of his depiction of child labour.
Heuvel stresses he was a misfit, opposing the dominant trend and then, when what he advocated acquired power, turning against it as it became corrupt.
Business groups, as a specific subtype of concentrated interests, can benefit from firms' structural power.
The illustrative example relates to a power distribution system and would be a natural topic for electrical engineering students.
Yet interest analysis without power analysis is trajectories without motion, direction without energy.
Often the government's power was not sufficient to handle the affairs of beggars well.
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Collocations with power
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When it was used for the common good, the people prospered and witchcraft (the private accumulation of power which threatened societal order) was suppressed.
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