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The same method of producing power, the cheapest that has ever been discovered, is being installed all over the world, and will, in time, produce a revolution in manufacturing processes The vital mechanism in the production of this power is the dynamo, and it is to Charles F. Brush, of Cleveland, Ohio, that its development is principally due.

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  1. noun The ability or capacity to perform or act effectively.
  2. noun A specific capacity, faculty, or aptitude. Often used in the plural: her powers of concentration.
  3. noun Strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted; might. See Synonyms at strength.

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  • This power is affinity Then it is remarked Chemistry is a science, which has for its object to discover the constituent properties of bodies, the result of the various combinations, and the laws by which those combinations are effected. —  James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823
  • Conscious that his power was artificial, that the least breath might blow him back into the nothingness from which he had arisen on the wrecks of his father's tyranny, he dreaded the personal eminence of his generals above all things. —  New Italian sketches
  • Had she not been shown in a dream that the power was hers? —  Hex
  • His countenance, his power is against him, to destroy him and make him miserable. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • The same method of producing power, the cheapest that has ever been discovered, is being installed all over the world, and will, in time, produce a revolution in manufacturing processes The vital mechanism in the production of this power is the dynamo, and it is to Charles F. Brush, of Cleveland, Ohio, that its development is principally due. —  American Men of Mind
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French pooir, to be able, power, from Vulgar Latin *potēre, to be able, from Latin potis, able, powerful; see poti- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English poer, pouer, power, from Old French poer, poeir, poueir, pooir, povoir, French pouvoir = Provencal Spanish Portuguese poder = Italian potere, power, properly infinitive, be able, from Middle Latin *potere, for L. posse, be able: see potent.
  2. power, n.
  3. Also poor; Cornish dial. power, of obscure origin.
 

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