n. In general, such an absence of external restriction and limitation that it depends only upon the inward determination of the subject whether or not it will act.n. An endowment of a voluntary being whereby it becomes possible for that being to do or effect something.n. A property of an inanimate thing or agency, especially a property of modifying other things.n. Used absolutely, with specification of the effect: The property whereby anything fulfils its proper functions well or strongly: as, a medicine of great power.n. A gift or talent for influencing others.n. The ability or right to command or control; dominion; authority; the right of governing.n. The domain within which authority or government is exercised; jurisdiction.n. In law: Legal capacity: as, the power to contract; the power of testation, or making a will.n. Legal authority conferred, and enabling one to do what otherwise he could not do; the dominion which one person may exercise over the property of another: as, the power of an agent, which is his delegated authority to act in the name or on behalf of his principal.n. In the law of conveyancing, an authority to do some act in relation to the title to lands or the creation of estates therein or to charges thereon, either conferred by the owner on another or reserved to himself when granting the lands or some interest therein; usually a power of appointment, which is the conferring on a person of the power of disposing of an interest in lands, quite irrespective of the fact whether or not he has any interest in the land itself. Digby. If the donee of the power has no interest in the land, the power is said to be collateral, as distinguished from a power appendant or appurtenant, as it is called when the interest he may dispose of must be carved out of or reduce his own interest; and from a power in gross, as it is called when the interest he may appoint will not take effect until his own interest has terminated: as, a power to a tenant for life to appoint the estate after his death among his children. A general power is one that may be exercised in favor of any one whatever, even the donee himself; a special or particular power can be exercised only in favor of a person or some of a class of persons specified in the document creating the power, or for specified purposes: as, a power to sell, to exchange, to lease, and the like.n. A written statement of legal authority; a document guaranteeing legal authority.n. Pecuniary ability; wealth.n. A large quantity; a great number.n. [Tr. of ML. potestas.] An active faculty of the mind whose exercise is dependent on the will.n. [Tr. of Latin potentia.] A capacity for acting or suffering in any determinate way.n. In Aristotelian metaph., the state of being of that which does not yet exist, but is in germ, ready to exist, the general conditions of its existence being fulfilled; the general principle of existence.n. In mech., that with which work can be done.n. The mechanical advantage of a machine.n. A simple machine.n. Mechanical energy as distinguished from hand-labor.n. In arithmetic and real algebra, the result of multiplying a quantity into itself a specified number of times.n. In geometry, the square of the distance of a point from the point of tangency to a given circle of a line through that point. This quantity is said to be the power of the point with respect to the circle.n. A spiritual being in general.n. A person in authority or exercising great influence in his community.n. A government; a governing body.n. That which has power; specifically, an army or navy; a military or naval force; a host.n. A token of subjection to power; in the New Testament, a covering for the head; a veil.n. In optics, the degree to which an optical instrument, as a telescope or microscope, magnifies the apparent linear or superficial dimensions of an object. See magnify.n. The eyepiece of a telescope or the objective of a microscope.n. Power within nature, not supernatural. Also called physical power.An obsolete form of poor.An obsolete form of pour.n. In geometry: The power of a point A with respect to a point-pair PP′ costraight with it is the product of the two sects from it to the pair—positive if it is on the same side of them, negative if it is between them. If m is the sect from A to the midpoint M of the sect PP′ , and h half the sect PP′ , then AP.AP′ = (m + h)(m—h) = m—h. This power is null if A coincides with P or P′ .n. The power of one point with respect to another is the square of the sect between them.n. The power of a point with respect to a straight is the perpendicular from the point to the straight.n. The power of a point with respect to a sphere or circle is its power with respect to a point-pair costraight with it and on the sphere or circle.n. The square on the center-sect of two circles less the squares on their radii is the power of the two circles, or the power of one circle with respect to the other.n. In the theory of assemblages: If the aggregates or sets A and B are equivalent they are said to have the same power.n. A transfinite cardinal.To furnish with power, specifically with motive power.n. A small codfish, Gadus minutus, called also power-cod.