1. Force ; plénitude ; énergie ; fougue.
Mais à lui-même aussi, cette mort serrait le coeur qui, d'un coup, anéantissait un homme en pleine vigueur, dans la fleur de l'âge, sans l'avertir par les prodromes les plus légers, un homme sobre comme il l'était, et cela à quelque temps de la retraite. (Jean Rogissart, Passantes d'Octobre, Librairie Arthème Fayard, Paris, 1958)
Le pape Innocent III (1193-1216) devait rompre avec cette tradition de tolérance et se faire l'inspirateur d'une politique hostile, qu'il mena avec une vigueur exceptionnelle. (Léon Berman, Histoire des Juifs de France des origines à nos jours, 1937)
Quelle qu'ait été l'importance pratique de la surexcitation populaire, il est indéniable que le gouvernement des États-Unis a agi avec vigueur, avec science et intelligence en face de cette invasion tout à fait inattendue. (H. G. Wells, La Guerre dans les airs, 1908, traduction d'Henry-D. Davray et B. Kozakiewicz, Mercure de France, Paris, 1910, p. 215 de l'éd. de 1921)
[?], l'acheteur, le plus souvent, est séduit par le poil lustré, onctueux et cette ardeur factice qui fait cabrioler, se cabrer, ou croupionner les chevaux, comme s'ils étaient doués d'une vigueur hors ligne [?]. (Gabriel Maury, Des ruses employées dans le commerce des solipèdes, Jules Pailhès, 1877)
2. [noun] (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control.
3. [noun] (countable) Ability to affect or influence.
4. [noun] Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
5. [noun] (metonymy) (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
6. [noun] (metonymy)An influential nation, company, or other such body.
7. [noun] (physical) (uncountable) Effectiveness.
8. [noun] Physical force or strength.
9. [noun] Electricity or a supply of electricity.
10. [noun] A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
11. [noun] A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror.
12. [noun] (mathematics) Effectiveness.
13. [noun] A product of equal factors. Notation and usage: xn, read as 'x to the power of n' or 'x to the nth power', denotes x × x × ... × x, in which x appears n times, where n is called the exponent; the definition is extended to non-integer and complex exponents.
14. [noun] (set theory) Cardinality.
15. [noun] (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
16. [noun] (biblical) (in plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
17. [verb] (transitive) To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
18. [verb] (transitive) To hit or kick something forcefully.
19. [noun] A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up.
20. [noun] Possession of controlling influence; 'the deterrent power of nuclear weapons'; 'the power of his love saved her'; 'his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade'.
21. [noun] (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second).
22. [noun] Possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; 'danger heightened his powers of discrimination'.
23. [noun] (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power; 'being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage'; 'during his first year in office'; 'during his first year in power'; 'the power of the president'.
24. [noun] One possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; 'the mysterious presence of an evil power'; 'may the force be with you'; 'the forces of evil'.
25. [noun] A mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself.
26. [noun] Physical strength.
27. [noun] A state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world.
28. [noun] A very wealthy or powerful businessman; 'an oil baron'.
29. [verb] Supply the force or power for the functioning of; 'The gasoline powers the engines'.
