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A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second, etc.
The power which a horse exerts.
The power of water employed to move machinery, etc.
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The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.
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Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.
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The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.
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Capable of exerting power; powerful.
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A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
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A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
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Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.
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Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
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Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.
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Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.
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Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.
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The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
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A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
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A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
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Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.
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Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible.
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Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.
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