Noun

(social) Effectiveness.

# (countable) Capability or influence.

#*

An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.

#*

Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace.The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace.

#* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation , passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”}}

#* 1998 , (Eckhart Tolle), (The Power of Now)

Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power , and reality of the eternal present.

# Control, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).

#* 1949', Eric Blair, aka '''(George Orwell) , ''(Nineteen Eighty-Four)

The Party seeks power' entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in '''power'''. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only '''power''', pure '''power'''. [...] We know that no one ever seizes '''power''' with the intention of relinquishing it. '''Power''' is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of '''power''' is ' power .

#* 2005 , Columbia Law Review , April

In the face of expanding federal power , California in particular struggled to maintain control over its Chinese population.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}

# (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.

# An influential nation, company, or other such body.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= John Vidal

, volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas , passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers , India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}

(physical, uncountable) Effectiveness.

# Physical force or strength.

# Electricity or a supply of electricity.

#* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation , passage=“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}

# A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.

# A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror.

(mathematics) Effectiveness.

# A product of equal factors. Notation and usage: x''^''n'', read as "''x'' to the power of ''n''" or "''x'' to the ''n''th power", denotes ''x'' × ''x'' × ... × ''x'', in which ''x'' appears ''n'' times, where ''n is called the exponent; the definition is extended to non-integer and complex exponents.

# (set theory) Cardinality.

# (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.

(biblical, in plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.

Noun

(uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.

(uncountable) The state of being well arranged.

The house is in order'''; the machinery is out of '''order .

Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.

to preserve order in a community or an assembly

(countable) A command.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=30 citation , passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}

(countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.

* {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation

, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.}}

(countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles; as, the Jesuit Order.

(countable) An association of knights; as, the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath.

any group of people with common interests.

(countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.

(countable, biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke

, title= In the News , volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}

A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.

the higher or lower orders of society

talent of a high order

* Jeremy Taylor

They are in equal order to their several ends.

* Granville

Various orders various ensigns bear.

* Hawthorne

which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime.

An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; often used in the plural.

to take orders''', or to take '''holy orders , that is, to enter some grade of the ministry

(architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.

(cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.

(electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.

* a 3-stage cascade of a 2nd-order bandpass Butterworth filter.

(chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function of concentrations of reactants and products.

(mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.

(graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.

(order theory) A partially ordered set.

(order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered set.

(mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials in a polynomial.