Power

For personal names, see Power (name) and Powers.

Power may refer to

• any ability to effect change

political or social

• Power (philosophy)
  • 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.
• 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.
  • Human power is the amount of work a human does in a period of time.
  • 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.g. xⁿ: see exponentiation
• Statistical power is the probability that a statistical test will reject a false null hypothesis

metaphysical

• • Higher power, a spiritual concept prevalent in twelve-step programs
  • 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" (Snap! 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 (Temptations song), a song by group Temptations
  • "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
  • The Power, a song by Manowar from the album Louder Than Hell

• literature
  • The Power (novel), a 1956 novel by Frank M. Robinson
  • Power: A New Social Analysis, a 1938 work by Bertrand Russell
  • The Power of Five, a series of five books written by Anthony Horowitz
  • Power (2004 novel), a 2004 fantasy novel written by 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

• sports
  • Power alley, the distance to the left-center and/or right-center field wall(s) in a baseball park

• 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