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Power (disambiguation)
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- Power (administrative) [r]: Add brief definition or description
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- 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]: Energy extraction from the heat stored beneath the Earth's surface which can be used directly for space and other heating or for generating electricity. [e]
- Hydropower [r]: Diverse forms of power produced by or with water. [e]
- Nuclear power [r]: The energy produced from controlled (non-explosive) nuclear reactions. Commercial nuclear power plants currently use the heat energy derived from nuclear fission reactions to generate steam, which in turn is used to generate electricity or other energy. [e]
- 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]: The conversion of air movement (wind) into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to generate electricity, wind mills for mechanical power and wind pumps for pumping water. [e]
- Will to power [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Higher power [r]: A term for God or a singular higher deity. The term is particularly associated with the twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous. [e]
