specific power

[spi-sif-ik pau-er]

noun

1. the amount of power delivered by an engine, battery, or other similar source, per unit of mass; power-to-weight ratio.

Example Sentences

In short, the supremacy clause matters not because of any specific power to which it applies, but because it clearly affirms the fact that the Constitution is, as Blackstone explains, law, not compact.

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The researchers were also able to quantify deaths attributable to specific power plants, producing a ranking of the coal-fired power plants studied based on their contribution to coal PM2.5's mortality burden.

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Hawaiian Electric said it is focused on restoring power and wouldn’t say whether the specific power lines involved in the fires were bare or comment on the state of the poles, citing a spate of new lawsuits that seek to hold it responsible for the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.

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Trump wasn’t the first president to use this specific power of immigration law to limit who can come into the U.S.

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It doesn't want to be confined to a specific power centre in the global order, which irked Washington diplomats in the early months of the invasion.

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