Contents 1 Other uses 1.1 Social sciences 1.2 Science 1.3 Mathematics 1.4 Religion/metaphysics 1.5 Commercial/industrial 1.6 Film 1.7 Music 1.8 Literature 1.9 Sports 1.10 Places 2 See also

Power refers broadly to any ability to effect change or exert control over people

Other uses

Social sciences

• Power (philosophy)
• Political power, power held by a person or group in a country's political system, such as
  • Executive power
  • Judicial power
  • Legislative power
• Power in international relations refers to the ability of national states to influence or control other states; states themselves may be referred to as powers, and may be further distinguished as: historical powers, middle powers, regional powers, great powers, superpowers, or hyperpowers
• Economic power, multiple meanings
• Power (communication), power in interpersonal communication

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.
  • 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

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

Religion/metaphysics

• Will to power, a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
• Higher power, a spiritual concept prevalent in twelve-step programs
• a rank in angelology, see Celestial Hierarchy
• The Five Powers, in Buddhism

Commercial/industrial

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

Film

• Power, a 1986 movie
• The Power, 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, a 1986 album by the band Kansas
• Power, a 1988 album by rapper Ice-T
• Power, a 1993 compilation album by the punk band SSD
• The Power, a 1999 Australian album by Vanessa Amorosi
• "Power", a song by German group Helloween
• "Power", a song by disco group Lipps Inc
• "Power", a song by group Temptations
• "Power", a song performed by Rainbow, written by lead singer Joe Lynn Turner
• "The Power", a 1990 electronic pop song by Snap!
• "The Power", a song by Manowar from the album Louder Than Hell
• Raw Power (disambiguation)

Literature

• The Power, 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, a 2004 fantasy novel written by J. A. Stiehl
• Power, a play written by Nick Dear
• The 48 Laws of Power, a 1998 work by Robert Greene
• Power!!, a manga album originally published in Japan now called Girl Got Game
• Powers (comics), a comic book series

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-time PDC World Darts Champion

Places

• Power, Montana

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

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