English Dictionary

power

/ˈpaʊə(ɹ)/

noun

The ability to do or undergo something. / (countable) The ability to affect or influence. / Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).

She has the power to change the world.

意味（1）

The ability to do or undergo something.

If it is spirits who have power to suffer, it seems they would also have active powers to think and will.

意味（2）

(countable) The ability to affect or influence.

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.

意味（3）

Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. … We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

意味（4）

(metonymically, chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.

No matter how different we appear, we're all the same in our struggle against the powers of evil and darkness. I hope that this day will always be a day of joy in which we can reconfirm our dedication and our courage and more than anything else, our love for one another. This is the promise of the Tree of Life.

意味（5）

(metonymically) An influential nation, company, or other such body.

Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.

意味（6）

(metonymically, archaic) An army, a military force.

Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d

And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet,

Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made,

That leads to Pallace of my brothers life,

Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not.

意味（7）

Physical force or strength.

He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.

意味（8）

Electricity or a supply of electricity.

After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.

意味（9）

A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.

意味（10）

The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.

We need a microscope with higher power.

意味（11）

(colloquial, dated) A large amount or number.

The threatning words of duke Robert comming at the last to king Henries eares, caused him foorthwith to conceiue verie sore displeasure against a power of men sent into Normandie.

意味（12）

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

意味（13）

(physics, mechanics) 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.

意味（14）

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.

意味（15）

(set theory) Cardinality.

意味（16）

(statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.

意味（17）

(biblical, in the plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.