Meanings of Power That Are Not Directly Related to Social Power
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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) ....