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Princeton's WordNet

  1. firepowernoun

    (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target

GCIDE

  1. firepowernoun

    A measure of the resources available to a group which allows them to achieve their objectives; capacity for action.

Wiktionary

  1. firepowernoun

    the capacity of a weapon to deliver fire onto a target

  2. firepowernoun

    the ability to deliver fire

  3. firepowernoun

    the ability to shoot and score goals.

  4. Etymology: fire + power

Wikipedia

  1. Firepower

    Firepower is the military capability to direct force at an enemy. (It is not to be confused with the concept of rate of fire, which describes the cycling of the firing mechanism in a weapon system.) Firepower involves the whole range of potential weapons. The concept is generally taught as one of the three key principles of modern warfare wherein the enemy forces are destroyed or have their will to fight negated by sufficient and preferably overwhelming use of force as a result of combat operations. Through the ages firepower has come to mean offensive power applied from a distance, thus involving ranged weapons as opposed to one-on-one close quarters combat. Firepower is thus something employed to keep enemy forces at a range where they can be defeated in detail or sapped of the will to continue. In the field of naval artillery, the weight of a broadside was long used as a figure of merit of a warship's firepower.

ChatGPT

  1. firepower

    Firepower is a term used to describe the total destructive capacity of a military force, especially in terms of the combined capacity of weaponry, vehicles, and personnel. It can also refer to the size or strength of something such as a machine, vehicle or team, or the amount of power or energy that something can produce or hold.

Wikidata

  1. Firepower

    Firepower is a video game of the combat flight simulation genre released in 2004 as an add on to enhance Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe. Firepower adds 18 new aircraft bringing the total of 36 military aircraft to Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe. Firepower also adds 50 new historical type missions, new ordnance and improved graphic effects to Microsoft's combat flight simulation. The aircraft in Firepower include the B-17 Flying Fortress models F and G, B-29A Superfortress, Arado 234B Blitz, Dewoitine D.520 fighter, Dornier 217M medium bomber, Dornier 217N night fighter, He-162A Salamander, Me334, Me410A Schnellbomber, Me410B-2 R-3 zerstorer, Me410B-2 U-2 R-4 zerstorer, Me410B-2 U-4 zerstorer, P-40N Warhawk, Ta-154 Moskito, Ta-152C1 R31, Ta-152H-1, Ta-183 Huckebein Interceptor, Avro Lancaster Mk III heavy bomber, Ho-229 V5 Supersonic Fighter /bomber, Avro Lancaster GS heavy bomber, and a B-24J Liberator. What's interesting in Shockwave Production's add on to Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3: Battle for Europe is the vast increase in the amount of available WWII military aircraft in the European Theater of Operations. Also there are 4 new bombers in which the player can man different aircrew positions.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of firepower in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of firepower in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of firepower in a Sentence

  1. Ed Yardeni:

    They may not have as much firepower or credibility next go-round.

  2. Top Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris:

    I am going to be extremely aggressive here in my investments. We have firepower right now of 500 million dollars. Today we signed $100 million out of this 500, we are the first and the only Egyptian company till now to sign the solar power energy 50 megawatts today.

  3. Lorne Baring:

    The BOJ is running out of monetary policy firepower so it was not a surprise to see that there is no change to the policy this week, also, China's industrial output figures at the weekend showed contraction yet again and underscore the weakness in demand from the world's second largest economy. There is still a soft demand coupled with (an) excess supply story in the commodities spectrum.

  4. Pioneer Chief Executive Scott Sheffield:

    Our strong balance sheet, combined with a strong derivatives position for 2015 and 2016, provides us with the financial firepower to ramp up drilling activity.

  5. Rafael Mariano Grossi:

    Any military firepower directed at or from the facility would amount to playing with fire, with potentially catastrophic consequences.

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