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in power
b. Geometry. in power [originally translating ancient Greek δυνάμει (Euclid)] : with regard to the squares of magnitudes of lines being compared, as distinguished from the magnitudes themselves. commensurable (also incommensurable) in power: (of two magnitudes) having commensurable (or incommensurable) squares. equal in power (also of equal power): (of a magnitude) having a square equal to the sum of the squares of two or more other magnitudes. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adverb] > in relation to squares of magnitudes
in power1570
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. x. f. 229 Right lines commensurable in power are such, whose squares one and the selfe same..area..doth measure.
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 17 Pythagoras sacrificed a Hecatomb, having found out, that the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle, is of equall power to the two sides, including the right angle.
1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements x. 194 Right lines are commensurable in power, when the same space does measure their squares.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 40 How to finde two Lines, which together shall be equal in Power to any Line given.
1702 V. Mandey tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica: Astron. ii. v. 352 A Rectangled Parallelogram D O R E... The Diagonal of this Parallelogram D E is equal in power to the Sides D O and O E, or D R and R E.
1788 J. Williamson tr. Euclid Elements II. x. 83 The straight lines commensurable in length are always so in power, but..those commensurable in power are not always so in length.
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P2. in power (a) in a position of authority, in government; (b) Scottish able, competent (to do something) (obsolete); (c) in potentiality, in posse, as opposed to in exercise or action (obsolete); (d) Mathematics: see sense 12b.
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society > authority > [phrase]
in powerc1325
in authoritya1475
at the top1936
up top1967
the world > action or operation > ability > able, capable, or competent [phrase]
in powerc1325
of powerc1390
of force1597
to be in capacity1649
in estate1651
the world > existence and causation > existence > reality or real existence or actuality > potentiality > [adverb]
in powerc1325
potentiallyc1450
dispositively1475
in posse1592
habitually1597
in potentia1600
in possibility1711
facultatively1887
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 7895 To drawe to him þe heyemen þat in poer were þo.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Ruth i. 1 In þe daies of oon juge, whan þe jugis weren beforn in power, þer is maad grett hungyr in þe erþe.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 889 The tane is in power to mak that presoun.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 68 That Intellect which is alwaies in act,..is better then that Intellect which is in power.
1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. viii. 114 The more to cross the desire and humour of those who would observe the feast of Christmas, the men then in power commanded a strict fast to be on that day kept and observed.
1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. i. 44 They are not really and in fact present to the mind, but only in power.
1792 R. Bage Man as he Is IV. cxx. 266 The flattery of domestics is but a poor substitute for the rich adulation paid to men in power.
1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 736 The moral man is nothing—the circumstantial man, or the man in power, every thing.
1888 Nation (N.Y.) 2 Aug. 81/3 It was..natural for them to support the party in power.
1955 Times 13 Aug. 7/2 The People's Party, then in power, deplored their rivals' use of the boycott weapon.
1991 Profession (Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer.) 8/1 I want to decode the perverse discourse of those in power.
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