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Look up power in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Power may refer to: Power (physics), meaning "rate of doing work" Engine power, the power put out by...

A power supply is an electrical device that supplies electric power to an electrical load. The main purpose of a power supply is to convert electric current...

A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of...

A power outage (also called a powercut, a power out, a power failure, a power blackout, a power loss, or a blackout) is the loss of the electrical power...

In an electric circuit, instantaneous power is the time rate of flow of energy past a given point of the circuit. In alternating current circuits, energy...

Power is the amount of energy transferred or converted per unit time. In the International System of Units, the unit of power is the watt, equal to one...

Power engineering, also called power systems engineering, is a subfield of electrical engineering that deals with the generation, transmission, distribution...

engineering, the power factor of an AC power system is defined as the ratio of the real power absorbed by the load to the apparent power flowing in the...

Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly...

Hybrid power are combinations between different technologies to produce power. In power engineering, the term 'hybrid' describes a combined power and energy...

political science, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors. Power does not exclusively...

An electric power system is a network of electrical components deployed to supply, transfer, and use electric power. An example of a power system is the...

Power-to-weight ratio (PWR, also called specific power, or power-to-mass ratio) is a calculation commonly applied to engines and mobile power sources...

Geothermal power is electrical power generated from geothermal energy. Technologies in use include dry steam power stations, flash steam power stations...

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity. Nuclear power can be obtained from nuclear fission, nuclear decay and nuclear fusion...

Electric power is the rate of transfer of electrical energy within a circuit. Its SI unit is the watt, the general unit of power, defined as one joule...

uninterruptible power supply (UPS) or uninterruptible power source is a type of continual power system that provides automated backup electric power to a load...

Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or...

nuclear power plant (NPP), also known as a nuclear power station (NPS), nuclear generating station (NGS) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station...