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Power may refer to

political or social

• Power (philosophy)
• any ability to control
• Power (sociology), the ability to make choices or influence outcomes, which is also power held by a person or group of people in a society
  • Political power, power held by a person or group in a country's political system
  • Reserve power, a power exercised by a head of state in certain exceptional circumstances
  • Power in international relations, the ability of national states to influence or control other states, which may be distinguished as:
    • see also, Historical powers, Middle power, Regional power, Great power, Superpower, Hyperpower
  • Power (communication), power in interpersonal communication
• Economic power, no agreed-upon definition
  • Purchasing power, the amount of goods and services a given amount of money can buy
  • Monopoly power, the ability to set the price of a good sold. Power is a measure of a person's ability to control the environment around them including the behavior of other people Power is a measure of a person's ability to control the environment around them including the behavior of other people Political power ( Imperium in Latin is a type of power held by a group in a Society which allows administration of some or all of In a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of Government, a reserve power is a power that may be exercised by the Head of state without the Power in international relations is defined in several different ways Middle power is a term used in the field of International relations to describe States that are not Superpowers or Great powers but still have In International relations, a regional power is a State that has power within a geographic Region. A great power is a Nation or State that has the ability to exert its influence on a global scale A superpower is a State with a leading position in the international system and the ability to Influence events and project power on a worldwide scale A hyperpower or omnipower is a state that is militarily economically and technologically dominant on the world stage Power is the ability to influence the attainment of goals of an individual or a group There is no agreed-upon definition of power in Economics. At least five definitions of power have been used Purchasing power, i Purchasing power is the amount of value of a good/services compared to the amount paid with a Currency. In Economics, a monopoly (from Greek monos, alone or single + polein, to sell exists when a specific individual or enterprise has sufficient
• Will to Power, a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
• Great Power
• Judicial power
• Executive power

in science

• Power (physics), the amount of work done or energy transferred per unit of time. A great power is a Nation or State that has the ability to exert its influence on a global scale In Law, the judiciary or judicial system is the system of Courts which administer Justice in the name of the sovereign or State In Political science and Constitutional law, the executive is the branch of government responsible for the day-to-day management of the State. In Physics, power (symbol P) is the rate at which work is performed or energy is transmitted or the amount of energy required or expended for
  • Human power is the amount of work a human does in a period of time. Human power is timed rate of work done by a human Most humans can exert only less than one-half Horsepower for a duration of a few minutes
  • Motive power is power which moves something, such as output of a motor
  • AC power in electrical engineering is the complex form of power
  • Optical power of a lens is the inverse of its focal length
  • Effective radiated power in radio telecommunications is a measure of radio station antennas
  • Electric power generation is the process of converting any form of energy to electrical energy, as in:
    • power station
    • nuclear power
    • solar power
    • wind power
    • wave power
    • tidal power
    • geothermal power
    • hydropower
• in mathematics
  • Power of a number, commonly written in the form e. In Thermodynamics, motive power is an agency as Water or Steam, used to impart motion. This article deals with power in AC systems See Mains electricity for information on utility supplied AC power Optical power ( dioptric power or refractive power) is the degree to which a lens or Mirror converges or diverges light In radio Telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power (ERP is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency (RF Electric power is defined as the rate at which Electrical energy is transferred by an Electric circuit. A power station (also referred to as generating station, power plant or powerhouse) is an industrial facility for the generation of Nuclear power is any Nuclear technology designed to extract usable Energy from atomic nuclei via controlled Nuclear reactions Solar energy is the Light and radiant heat from the Sun that powers Earth 's Climate and Weather and sustains Life Wind Power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form such as electricity using Wind turbines At the end of 2007 worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was Wave power refers to the Energy of Ocean surface waves and the capture of that energy to do useful work — including Electricity generation, Tidal power, sometimes called tidal energy, is a form of Hydropower that converts the energy of Tides into electricity or other useful forms of power Geothermal power (from the Greek roots geo, meaning earth and therme, meaning heat is energy generated by heat stored in the earth or the collection Hydropower, hydraulic power or water power is power that is derived from the Force or Energy of moving water which may g. xⁿ: see exponentiation
  • Statistical power is the probability that a statistical test will reject a false null hypothesis

metaphysical

• • Higher power, mostly the Judaeochristian god or another deity
  • a rank in angelology, see Celestial Hierarchy

religion

• The Five Powers, in Buddhism

electronics industry

• Computer performance, computing power

toponymy

• Power, Montana, a town in the USA

brands and titles

• IBM POWER, a microprocessor architecture
• POW-R Consortium, a group of companies responsible for an audio codec standard

• film
  • Power (film), a 1986 movie
  • The Power (film), a 1968 film based on the novel

• music
  • Power ballad, a song genre
  • Power metal, a subgenre of heavy metal music
  • Power noise, a subgenre of industrial music
  • "Pow R. Toc H.", a track by Pink Floyd
  • Power (album), a 1986 album by the band Kansas
  • Power (Ice T album), a 1988 album by rapper Ice-T
  • The Power (1990 song), a 1990 electronic pop song by Snap!
  • Power (song), a song by German group Helloween
  • Power (Lipps Inc song), a song by disco group Lipps Inc
  • "Power (Rainbow song)," a song performed by Rainbow, written by lead singer Joe Lynn Turner
  • The Power (Vanessa Amorosi album), a 1999 album by Vanessa Amorosi

• literature
  • The Power (novel), a 1956 novel by Frank M. The power of a statistical test is the probability that the test will reject a false Null hypothesis (that it will not make a Type II error) This article is about a spiritual concept particularly in use in Twelve-step programs For the album by Big Audio Dynamite see Higher Power. An angel is a Spiritual Supernatural being found in many Religions Although the nature of angels and the tasks given to them vary from tradition to tradition De Coelesti Hierarchia ( Celestial Hierarchy) is a Pseudo-Dionysian work on Angelology (dated to ca Translation Pañca (Sanskrit Pali means "five" Bala (Sanskrit Pali means "power" "strength" "force Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices Computer performance is characterized by the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system compared to the time and resources used Power is a Census-designated place (CDP in Teton County, Montana, United States. POWER is a RISC Instruction set architecture designed by IBM. POW-R (Psychoacoustically Optimized Wordlength Reduction is a Dithering Algorithm developed by the Consortium of Lake Technology ( Dolby Labs Power is a 1986 American Drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. The article is about the 1968 film For the 1986 Golden Raspberry winner see Power (film. The term " power ballad " is a Colloquialism used to describe a type of Song performed (but not necessarily written by a Hard rock or Power metal is a style of Heavy metal music combining characteristics of traditional metal with Thrash metal or Speed metal, often within Power noise (also known as rhythmic noise, noize and occasionally as distorted beat music) is a fusion genre among Noise music and various styles " Pow R Toc H " is an instrumental song with vocal effects from Pink Floyd 's 1967 album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. This article is about the Kansas album For the Q and Not U album see Power (Q and Not U album Power is the tenth studio Power is the second album by Ice T. Released in 1988, the album produced " The Power " is an electronic pop hit song for the group Snap!. " Power " is a song by the German Power metal band Helloween taken from the album The Time of the Oath. Lipps Inc (pronounced like " Lip sync " was a studio band that achieved one significant hit, " Funkytown " in 1980 Rainbow was a Hard rock and heavy metal band formed by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in 1975. Joe Lynn Turner ( JLT) born Joseph Linquito August 2, 1951 in Hackensack New Jersey, is a melodic hard rock singer best known for his work The Power is Vanessa Amorosi's debut album in which was very popular in Australia The Power is a 1956 Science fiction novel by Frank M Robinson. Robinson
  • Power: A New Social Analysis, a 1938 work by Bertrand Russell
  • Power (2004 novel), a 2004 fantasy novel written by J. Power A New Social Analysis (1st imp London 1938 Allen & Unwin 328 pp Power is a 2004 novel and screenplay written by author/producer J A. Stiehl
  • Power (play), a play written by Nick Dear
  • The 48 Laws of Power, a 1998 work by Robert Greene

• comics
  • Power!!, a manga album originally published in Japan now called Girl Got Game
  • Powers (comics), a comic book series

• lotteries
  • Powerball, a major United States lottery game

• The Power may refer to:
  • Port Adelaide Football Club
  • Phil Taylor, 13 times PDC World Darts Champion

See also

• Superpower (ability), special abilities of superheroes
• Supernatural power, that cannot be explained with science or logic

• Powers (disambiguation)
• Powerpuff Girls
• Power Rangers
• Power supply
• List of comic book superpowers

Power is a play by the British playwright Nick Dear. It is set in the court of King Louis XIV of France and explores the events and ideas that The 48 Laws of Power is a 1998 book by Robert Greene. The book shares thematic elements with Niccolò Machiavelli 's The Prince and Girl Got Game (originally published in Japan as Power!!) is a Manga by Shizuru Seino about a girl forced to pretend Powers is an American, creator-owned, Comic book series by Brian Michael Bendis (writer and Michael Avon Oeming (artist Powerball is an American Lottery game sold through US lotteries as a shared Jackpot pool game Port Adelaide Football Club, often referred to as simply Port or the Power is an Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia Philip Douglas Taylor (born August 13 1960 is a 13 time world champion English darts player whose nickname is The Power. Superpowers (also super powers or simply powers) is another term for Superhuman abilities that is any abilities that a human does not possess in real The term supernatural or supranatural ( Latin: super, supra "above" + natura "nature" pertains to entities events The Powerpuff Girls is an Emmy award-winning The show has come under criticism for its rather excessive violence (including images of characters gushing blood Power Rangers is a long-running American Children's television series adapted from the Japanese Tokusatsu Super Sentai Series, though it Power supply is a reference to a source of Electrical power. A device or system that supplies Electrical or other types of Energy to an output load In generalDO NOT ADD INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT CONCERN COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS

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