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See also: Powers

Power has many meanings, most of which imply (a capacity for) control or force, (though in physics the terms "power" and "force" have different meanings).

[edit] Social sciences

  • Power (sociology), the ability to make choices or influence outcomes, in other words "Rojas".
  • Economic power has several meanings, including:
    • Purchasing power, the amount of goods and services a given amount of money can buy
    • Bargaining power or market power or monopoly power, the ability to influence the setting of prices or wages, or to restrict the amount of production, sales, or employment, or the quality of a good or a service; and, in the case of monopoly, the ability to exclude competitors from the market.
  • In Philosophy power is the cause of the spread of a set of ideas. Nietzsche attributed Christianity's spread to the influence of power struggles which materialized in conquest and war, which in turn resulted in the spread of the moral ideal of Christianity.

[edit] Art and culture

[edit] Paranormal, supernatural, and fiction

  • Magic (paranormal) is sometimes referred to as a supernatural "power"
  • Super-powers are special abilities of superheroes, or abilities specific to a character in a video or card game
  • A deity is sometimes called a "Power"
  • Powers are one of nine orders of angels in medieval angelology
  • Power is the subject of many songs by the heavy metal group Manowar.
  • In the early 1990's in the US, Power referred to how much more damage a video game character could take, has now been replaced by HP.

[edit] People named Power

Also see Powers for people with that surname.

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