superpower
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
superpower (countable and uncountable, plural superpowers)
- (countable) A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the United States or formerly the Soviet Union.
- 1999, David Held, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture, page 97:
- The year 1945 marked the end of Europe's global hegemony and confirmed the US and the Soviet Union as global superpowers.
- (countable, fiction) An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Electricity generated in a large plant that is tied into a regional network, on a larger scale than was common in the early years of commercial electricity production.
- (mathematics) A tetration.
- Synonym: power tower
- Antonym: superlogarithm
- (uncountable) Excessive or superior power.
Derived terms
Translations
sovereign state
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fictional extraordinary ability
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Verb
superpower (third-person singular simple present superpowers, present participle superpowering, simple past and past participle superpowered)
- (transitive) To give extraordinary powers to.
Further reading
- superpower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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