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  • adjective At full power; at the very utmost limit.

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Examples

  • It's a full-powered computer that allows you to be more productive when inspiration strikes, not just when you schedule it.

    Michael Ashley: Mobile Book Authoring Transforms Your Publishing Workflow 2010

  • On Feb. 17, as the Washington Post notes, "the nation's full-powered television stations are scheduled to permanently shut off the traditional analog signals they have used for more than half a century and switch to all-digital broadcasts."

    Minus 16 Days 2009

  • All full-powered stations are supposed to discontinue analog broadcasts by June 12th.

    FCC maps digital TV coverage on its Web site 2009

  • All full-powered stations are supposed to discontinue analog broadcasts by June 12th.

    FCC maps digital TV coverage on its Web site 2009

  • Facing six doll-sized but full-powered clones of herself, Kara Zor-El uses a piece of Gold K to depower all of them.

    Lorendiac’s Lists: Timeline of when Gold Kryptonite Has Been Used (1st Draft) | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Gantok was still making full-powered spurts of drive, trying to stress Mercury into ruin.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • Referring to a full-powered multiple throttle position in the guide slots of the flight panel, Pucky bared his incisor gleefully and yelled, "Slots out!"

    Unleashed Powers Brand, Kurt 1976

  • From there on, increase of field-strength had a lesser effect; but on long, straight, uninterrupted runs a full-powered ship could hurtle across the galaxy at the averaged-out rate of a light-year of distance for each ninety minutes on the ship's clocks.

    The Other Side Of Nowhere Leinster, Murray 1964

  • Instead, it was the Red Lensman; a full-powered Second-Stage Lensman who had finally decided that, since appeals to reason, logic, and common sense had no perceptible effect upon this stiff-necked near-woman, the time had come to bear down.

    Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

  • This reduces what, in nearly all full-powered steamships, is a vast single compartment, into two of moderate size, 60 feet in length; and in the event of either boiler room being flooded, it still leaves the vessel with half her boiler power available, giving a speed of from thirteen to fourteen knots per hour.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various

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