"firepower" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-firepower.wav Forms: firepowers [plural]
Etymology: From fire + power. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fire|power}} fire + power Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} firepower (countable and uncountable, plural firepowers)
  1. The capacity of a weapon to deliver fire onto a target. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (capacity of a weapon): 火力 (huǒlì) (Chinese Mandarin), vuurkracht [feminine] (Dutch), tulivoima (Finnish), puissance de feu [feminine] (French), Feuerkraft [feminine] (German), 火力 (karyoku) (alt: かりょく) (Japanese), siła ognia [feminine] (Polish), poder de fogo [masculine] (Portuguese), огнева́я мощь (ognevája moščʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-firepower-en-noun-QDGYtuVi Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 46 44 Disambiguation of 'capacity of a weapon': 46 27 26
  2. The ability to deliver fire. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (ability to deliver fire): palebná síla [feminine] (Czech), vuurkracht [feminine] (Dutch), tulivoima (Finnish), puissance de feu [feminine] (French), siła ognia [feminine] (Polish), огнева́я мощь (ognevája moščʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
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  3. (figurative) The ability and resources to dominate. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: firepower kill Translations (sport: ability to score): tulivoima (Finnish), Schlagkraft [feminine] (German), результати́вность (rezulʹtatívnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
Disambiguation of 'sport: ability to score': 4 49 47

Inflected forms

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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ability to deliver fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "siła ognia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ognevája moščʹ",
      "sense": "ability to deliver fire",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "огнева́я мощь"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "sport: ability to score",
      "word": "tulivoima"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "sport: ability to score",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlagkraft"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rezulʹtatívnostʹ",
      "sense": "sport: ability to score",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "результати́вность"
    }
  ],
  "word": "firepower"
}

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