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Power loom
Power loom: mechanically powered weaving machine patented by Edmund Cartwright in 1785, also called mechanized loom. Weaves cloth roughly 10 times faster than handlooms; dominates Indian cloth output at about 60%.
Power Mac G4
The Power Mac G4, also known as the Power Macintosh G4, is a line of professional Macintosh computers sold by Apple from 1999 to 2004.
Power Mac G5
The Power Mac G5, also known as the Power Macintosh G5, was Apple's 64-bit PowerPC workstation tower, announced in June 2003 and sold until Apple's 2005 Intel transition.
Power Macintosh
The Power Macintosh, later shortened to Power Mac, is a line of Macintosh desktop computers sold by Apple from 1994 until 2006, built around PowerPC processors.
Power Man (Victor Alvarez)
Power Man (Victor Alvarez) is a Marvel Comics superhero, son of Shades, who absorbed the chi of 107 explosion victims and took Luke Cage's old alias; created by Van Lente and Asrar, debuted 2010, later retired the name.
Power Memorial Academy
Power Memorial Academy was an all-boys Catholic high school in Manhattan run by the Irish Christian Brothers from 1931 to 1984, famed for basketball and alumnus Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Power metal
Power metal: heavy metal subgenre fusing speed metal technique, neoclassical guitar, keyboards, and operatic clean vocals; named from Metallica's 1982 demo, defined by Helloween's 1987 Keeper of the Seven Keys, split into US and European branches, revived by HammerFall in 1997.
Power Metal (album)
Power Metal (album): Pantera's fourth studio album, released June 24, 1988 on Metal Magic Records; first Pantera record with vocalist Phil Anselmo, largely heavy/speed metal with glam remnants, sold about 30,000 copies, never officially reissued.
Power MOSFET
A power MOSFET is a voltage-controlled transistor built to switch large currents at high speed in power conversion circuits, with vertical current flow through the silicon.
Power nap
Power nap: a short 10-30 minute daytime sleep, also called a catnap, kept in light N1-N2 sleep to boost alertness and mood while avoiding slow-wave sleep and sleep inertia; best taken in the early afternoon.
Power Nine
The Power Nine, also known as Power 9, are nine Magic: The Gathering cards from the game's first 1993 printings, widely considered the most powerful ever printed.
Power of 10
A power of 10 is a number like 100 or 1000, written 10 to the nth power, that underlies decimal notation and the SI metric prefixes.
Power of a test
The power of a test, also called statistical power, is the probability that a test rejects a false null hypothesis for a given effect size.
Power of attorney
Power of attorney: a legal document authorizing an agent (attorney-in-fact, donee) to act for a principal. Covers ordinary, durable/enduring, and lasting powers (LPA/EPA), capacity rules, abuse safeguards, and cross-border recognition; not a lawyer, guardianship, or conservatorship.
Power of Siberia
Power of Siberia (Сила Сибири) is a natural gas pipeline operated by Gazprom from eastern Siberian fields to China, the first to carry Russian gas directly there.
Power of Siberia 2
Power of Siberia 2 is a proposed gas pipeline that would carry up to 50 billion cubic meters of Russian gas yearly to China through Mongolia.
Power of the Dollar
Power of the Dollar is 50 Cent's unreleased 2000 debut album for Columbia Records via the Trackmasters, shelved after he was shot nine times in May 2000, then bootlegged widely.
Power of the Primes
Power of the Primes: 2017-2018 Hasbro Generations toyline and Machinima web series concluding the Prime Wars Trilogy, built on Prime Masters figures and the Thirteen Primes mythology.
Power of two
A power of two is a number written as 2 to a whole-number exponent, beginning 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and important in computing.
Power optimizer
A power optimizer is a DC-to-DC converter fitted to an individual photovoltaic module that tracks that module's maximum power point before power reaches a central string inverter.
Power outage
A power outage, also called a power failure or power cut, is the loss of electric service, ranging from brief interruptions to blackouts lasting days or weeks.
Power over Ethernet
Power over Ethernet (PoE) is an IEEE 802.3 standard for delivering electrical power and data over the same Ethernet cable, powering devices such as IP cameras and wireless access points.
Power Pack
Power Pack is a Marvel Comics superhero team of child siblings Alex, Julie, Jack, and Katie Powers, created in 1984 by Louise Simonson and June Brigman, powered by a dying Kymelian alien, with a 62-issue original run ending in 1991 and later miniseries revivals.
Power Politics
Power Politics is a 1971 poetry collection by Margaret Atwood, published by House of Anansi in Toronto, that treats love between a man and a woman as a contest of power.
Power pop
Power pop is a guitar-driven pop rock genre with strong melodies, vocal harmonies, and three-minute songs, coined by Pete Townshend in 1967 and founded by the Raspberries, Big Star, and Badfinger in the early 1970s.
Power projection
Power projection is a state's ability to apply military and national power far from its territory, spanning deployment, sustainment, basing, and logistics; US doctrine defines it and its constraints, while China's Djibouti base marks its emergence.
Power Pros
Power Pros, known in Japan as Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū or Pawapuro, is a Konami baseball series begun in 1994, known for big-headed characters and its Success Mode.
Power purchase agreement
A power purchase agreement (PPA) is a long-term contract in which a buyer purchases electricity from a producer at an agreed price, typically for 10 to 25 years.
Power quality monitor
A power quality monitor is an instrument that analyzes voltage and current signals to detect, record, and quantify disturbances such as sags, swells, harmonics, flicker, and transients.
Power Rangers
Power Rangers: American children's superhero franchise launched in 1993 with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, adapting Japan's Super Sentai by combining Japanese fight footage with newly shot American scenes; 30 seasons, over 900 episodes, owned by Hasbro since 2018.