power
Meaning
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- The ability to do or undergo something.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- Effectiveness.
- Effectiveness.
- Effectiveness.
- Effectiveness.
- Effectiveness.
- (colloquial) 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.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pow‧er
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpaʊ̯ə̯/
Etymology
From Middle English power, poer, from Old French poeir, from Vulgar Latin potēre, from Latin posse, whence English potent. Compare French pouvoir. Displaced the native Old English anweald.
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