| Power | |
| 1. n. 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. | |
| 2. n. (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. | |
| 3. n. Ability to affect or influence. | |
| 4. n. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction). | |
| 5. n. (metonymy) (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government. | |
| 6. n. (metonymy) An influential nation, company, or other such body. | |
| 7. n. (physical) Effectiveness. | |
| 8. n. Physical force or strength. | |
| He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium. | |
| 9. n. Electricity or a supply of electricity. | |
| After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days. | |
| 10. n. A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy. | |
| 11. n. A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror. | |
| We need a microscope with higher power. | |
| 12. n. 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). | |
| the mechanical powers | |
| 13. n. mathematics | |
| 14. n. A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion):x^n, read as "x to the power ofn" or the like, is called a power and denotes the produc | |
| 15. n. (set theory) Cardinality. | |
| 16. n. (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true. | |
| 17. n. (biblical, in plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme. | |
| 18. v. To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device). | |
| This CD player is powered by batteries. | |
| 19. v. To hit or kick something forcefully. | |
| 20. v. To enable or provide the impetus for. | |
| 21. adj. (Singapore, colloquial) Impressive. | |
