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  "id": "power.energy",
  "term": "power",
  "sense": "energy",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 19,
  "arena": "power",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the capacity to produce change through movement in space over time",
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      "space.extent",
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      "effort.general",
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      "process.general",
      "make.verb",
      "capacity.size",
      "potential.capacity"
    ],
    "interaction": "energy.capacity moves across.space.extent during time.dimension, enabling effort.general that results in work.effort and sustained change.process",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed capacity for transformation",
      "spatiotemporal leverage",
      "sustained agency"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hoover Dam generates 4.2 billion kilowatt-hours annually by harnessing the Colorado River’s flow through turbines.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A cheetah accelerates from 0 to 60 mph in under three seconds, converting metabolic energy into motion.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2021 Texas power grid failure left 4.5 million homes without electricity during a winter storm.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "energy.capacity",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    },
    {
      "id": "work.effort",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "fax.communication",
    "federal.government",
    "political.governance"
  ],
  "forms": [
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    "powered",
    "powering",
    "powers"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts: motion.movement, capacity.size, and potential.capacity, which are foundational to the capacity described. Definition retained and interaction unchanged as they cor"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.energy"
}