power
Definition 1
General: Ability to cause or prevent an action, make things happen; the discretion to act or not act. Opposite of disability, it differs from a right in that it has no accompanying duties.
Definition 2
Law: (1) Document (instrument) transferring or vesting legal authorization. (2) Ability conferred on a person by law to determine and alter (by his or her own will) the rights, duties, liabilities, and other legal relations, of himself or others.
Definition 3
Mechanics: Rate of doing work, measured in units which express work per unit time such as watt (joules per second).
power is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law, Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership and Industries, Manufacturing, & Technology subjects.
power appears in the definitions of the following terms:
servomechanism,
social network,
ex officio,
World Bank,
hot swappable,
termination of trust,
probate court,
oppression,
key escrow,
paternalism
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