Usually means: Ability to influence or control.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. power: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. power: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. power: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. power: Collins English Dictionary
  5. power: Vocabulary.com
  6. Power, Power, power: Wordnik
  7. power: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Power, power: Wiktionary
  9. power: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. power: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. power: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. power: Dictionary.com
  13. power (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. power: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Power: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. power: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. power: Rhymezone
  19. power: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. power: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. POWER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. POWER: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. power: Free Dictionary
  24. power: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. power: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. power: Law.com Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. power: Glossary of research economics
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Power: Management Dictionary
  9. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Power (disambiguation), The Power, power: Legal dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  12. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. POWER: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Power: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. Power (deity), Power (disambiguation), The Power, power: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  5. Power (disambiguation), Power (sociology), The Power, power: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Conflict Resolution Glossary (No longer online)
  5. PoWER: Acronym Finder
  6. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  7. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  8. power: Idioms

Science (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Power: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Power: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  5. Power: Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms
  6. Statistics (in particular, re-randomisation statistics) (No longer online)
  7. power, power, power, power: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  8. power: Anthropological Terms
  9. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Statistics (No longer online)
  11. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  12. Power: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. power, power, power: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. power, power [bop], the power: Urban Dictionary

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. power: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. power: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Explosives (No longer online)
  6. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  8. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  9. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  10. POWER (P): Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The ability to do or undergo something.
noun:  (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
noun:  (countable) The ability to affect or influence.
noun:  Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
noun:  (metonymically, chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
noun:  (metonymically) An influential nation, company, or other such body.
noun:  (metonymically, archaic) An army, a military force.
noun:  (physical, uncountable) Effectiveness.
noun:  Physical force or strength.
noun:  Electricity or a supply of electricity.
noun:  A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
noun:  The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
noun:  (colloquial, dated) A large amount or number.
noun:  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).
noun:  (trucking) A tractor.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (mathematics)
noun:  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.
noun:  (set theory) Cardinality.
noun:  (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
noun:  (biblical, in the plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
verb:  (transitive) To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
verb:  (transitive) To hit or kick something forcefully.
verb:  To enable or provide the impetus for.
verb:  (intransitive) To move or advance with great force or speed.
adjective:  (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial) Impressive.
noun:  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.
noun:  A surname.

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