control vs power

control

noun
  • Influence or authority over something. 

  • A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register. 

  • An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box (abbreviated Ctrl). 

  • A control group or control experiment. 

  • A checkpoint along an audax route. 

  • A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan. 

  • The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button. 

  • Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control. 

  • A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure. 

  • A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living. 

  • A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control. 

  • Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation. 

verb
  • (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated. 

  • to hold in check, to curb, to restrain 

  • To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of. 

power

noun
  • The ability to affect or influence. 

  • Physical force or strength. 

  • Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction). 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

adj
  • Impressive. 

verb
  • To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device). 

  • To hit or kick something forcefully. 

  • To enable or provide the impetus for. 

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