POWER of meanings // MEANINGS of power
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Meanings of Power That Are Not Directly Related
​to Social Power

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What you see here is a page of my hypertext book POWER of meanings // MEANINGS of power. Initially empty, this page will slowly be filled with thoughts, notes, and quotes. One day, I will use them to write a coherent entry, similar to these completed pages. See this post to better understand my creative process. Thank you for your patience! :)
On a package of laundry detergent: stain-lifting power. Here the word power is meant as ability. Of course, it is not the same as the human ability, because the detergent does not make choices and does not have awareness. However, people often use language to describe inanimate objects as having properties of a sentient being. 

​"
city was a major economic power in the region"

To clarify: when I talk about "social power", I refer to people's actions and relationships between people. Below you will find a list of meanings that is not directly related to such actions or relationships. I will call these meanings "indirect".


According to Merriam-Webster, indirect meanings of power include nouns, verbs and adjectives. I list those selected meanings below using the numbering of this online dictionary:

NOUNS
2e - chiefly dialectal : a large number or quantity
3 - 
powers plural : an order of angels
5a - 
the number of times as indicated by an exponent that a number occurs as a factor in a product and the product itself
5b - related to cardinal numbers

6a - a source or means of supplying energy (especially electricity, see Power on/off)
​6b - motive power
6c - the time rate at which work is done or energy emitted or transferred
7 - magnification (specifically, 
the apparent enlargement of an object by an optical instrument)
....

VERBS

ADJECTIVES
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        • Empowerment
      • F >
        • Foucault's "power is everywhere"
        • Free will
      • H >
        • Having power and using power
        • How everybody is powerful
        • How everybody is powerless
      • I >
        • Improving mental abilities
        • In control
        • Inequality
        • Influencing each other
        • Intentionality and power
      • L >
        • Language has power over us
        • Limited resources
      • M >
        • Macropower: discourse
        • Main theories of power
        • "May" power
        • Meanings of power that are not directly related to social power
        • Micropower: ability and influence
        • Mindfulness
        • My synesthetic perception of "power"
      • P >
        • Power and knowledge
        • Power as ability
        • Power as a chess game
        • Power as influence
        • Powerful and powerless
        • "Power" in language
        • Power is not a thing
        • Power of speech
        • Power of mind
        • Power on/off
        • Privilege
      • R >
        • Responsibility, blame and power
      • S >
        • Synonyms of power
      • T >
        • Theory of micro- and macropower
      • W >
        • What is power?
  • Author
    • My process