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Air Power

Definition: Air Power

Air Power

Noun

1. The aggregation of a country's military aircraft.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Air Power

Synonym: aviation (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Air Power

English words defined with "air power": Air compressorBalloon fish, Billy Mitchell, Bude light, Bur fishcompressed airEngine turningFly capMitchellpneumatic drill, Prime moverWilliam Mitchell, Wind-broken. (references)

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Modern Usage: Air Power

DomainUsage

Screenplays

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power. Here, on Arrakis, we need desert power. (Dune; writing credit: John Harrison)

Movie/TV Titles

Air Power (1956)

Victory Through Air Power (1943)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Air Power

DomainTitle

Books

  • Carrier Aviation Air Power Directory: The World's Carriers and Their Aircraft 1950-Present (reference)

  • Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War (Cass Studies in Air Power) (reference)

  • Emerging Threats, Force Structures and the Role of Air Power in Korea (Conference Proceedings (Rand Corporation), Cf-152-Af) (reference)

  • Air Power at the Battlefront: Allied Close Air Support in Europe, 1943-45 (Cass Series--Studies in Air Power, 6) (reference)

  • Persian Gulf Security Prospects for Air Power & Basing Options (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Air Power

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Mitchell Field. The side gun of an American bomber gets plenty of work during an air battle. Manned by a brave, able, well-equipped gunner, it's one of the tools that is steadily thinning out Japanazi air power.Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Aircraft. This air compressor in a Western aircraft plant supplies air power for riveting hammers, sprayguns, and other air-operated equipment.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Air Power

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Russia

Attempts by government forces to regain control over Chechnya were accompanied by the indiscriminate use of air power and artillery. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Air Power

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

air power

403

devilbiss air power company

49

air power tool

19

air power system

10

air power adapter

6

air power inc

5

auto air power adapter

5

air power world

2

air power vector

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Air Power

Language Translations for "air power"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

空軍力 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くうぐ"りょく. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airay owerpay

   

Russian 

  

воздушная мощь, могущество в воздухе. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sức mạnh không quân. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Air Power

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: airpower.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-o-p-r-r-w"

-2 letters: prewar, prowar, prower, rapier, repair, rewrap, ropier, warier, warper.

-3 letters: airer, arrow, opera, pareo, parer, pawer, power, prier, prior, raper, rawer, repro, riper, roper, rower, wiper, wirer, wirra, wrier.

-4 letters: aero, aper, orra, pair, pare, parr, pear, peri, pier, pore, prao, proa, prow, rape, rare, reap, rear, repo, ripe, roar, rope, wair, ware.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-o-p-r-r-w"
 

+1 letter: airpowers.

 

+2 letters: brainpower.

 

+3 letters: brainpowers, sparrowlike.

 

+4 letters: praiseworthy.

 

+5 letters: waterproofing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Air Power


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 69 72      50 6F 77 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01010000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#105 &#114 &#32 &#80 &#111 &#119 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0069 0072      0050 006F 0077 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35758425081897184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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