A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
To clean up an area.
To enforce norms or standards upon.
To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
Physical force or strength.
The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
The ability to do or undergo something.
An influential nation, company, or other such body.
Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
The ability to affect or influence.
A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x⨯x⨯⋯⨯x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
Cardinality.
The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
Electricity or a supply of electricity.
Impressive.
To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
To hit or kick something forcefully.
To enable or provide the impetus for.