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specific power

American  
[spi-sif-ik pau-er] / spɪˈsɪf ɪk ˈpaʊ ər /

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

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“While this strategy was effective during smaller outages, we are now implementing fleetwide updates that provide the Driver with specific power outage context, allowing it to navigate more decisively,” it added.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

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.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2023

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.

From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2023

It’s this context that helps me, a possibly dying man as well, appreciate “Cyberpunk 2077” more than any other open-world game when it comes to achieving my specific power fantasy.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2022

Apis becomes an exceedingly useful remedy in consequence of the specific power which it possesses over the whole internal mucous membrane and its appendages.

From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.