Power (disambiguation)
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- Power (administrative) [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- Power ballad (music) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Power metal (music) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Power (communication) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Power (film) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Power (executive) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Power (legislative) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Power (judicial) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Power (physics) [r]: Rate of producing or consuming energy; SI unit: watt = joule/second. [e]
- Power (politics) [r]: The capacity to control the administration of resources within a society [e]
- Power (sociology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Power (statistics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Power (film) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Power (novel) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Great power [r]: A nation state able to exercise influence on a global scale. In the long century after 1815, the term was generally applied to the most powerful European nations. After World War II, the designation of permanent members of the United Nations Security Council was an expression of prevailing great powers. [e]
- Horsepower [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human power [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Economic power [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Five Powers (Buddhism) [r]: One of seven sets of qualities conducive to enlightenment in Buddhist thought. The five are: concentration, energy, faith, thoughtfulness and wisdom. [e]
- Geothermal power [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hydropower [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nuclear power [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Regional power [r]: In international relations, a nation whose power is restricted primarily to its own geographic region. [e]
- Social power [r]: A social theory by French and Raven, postulates that there are six sources of social power: reward; coercion; legitimacy or normative power; referent (or organizational) power; expertise and information. [e]
- Solar power [r]: Energy sources based directly on the sun's electromagnetic radiation. [e]
- Superpower [r]: In international relations, the most powerful nation(s). During the cold war, the United States and Soviet Union were recognized superpowers. Since the breakup of the Soviet empire, some believe the U.S. is the only remaining superpower, or that China is rapidly rising to superpower status. [e]
- Tidal power [r]: Energy flows associated with tidal action. Some sources posit it to be an important alternative energy source. [e]
- Wind power [r]: Energy derived from air movement (wind). At least since the Middle Ages windmills have been the principal form of harnessing wind power. [e]
- Will to power [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Higher power [r]: A term for God or a singular higher diety. The term is particularly associated with the twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous. [e]
