superpower

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Noun

superpower

1. (uncountable) Excessive or superior power.
2. (countable) A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the Soviet Union or United States.
   • 1999, David Held, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture (page 97)

     The year 1945 marked the end of Europe's global hegemony and confirmed the US and the Soviet Union as global superpowers.

3. (countable) A fictional extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.
4. (obsolete, uncountable) Electricity generated in a large plant that is tied into a regional network, on a larger scale than was common in the early years of commercial electricity production.
5. (mathematics) A tetration (also known as a power tower and the inverse of a superlogarithm).

Translations

• French: superpuissance
• German: Supermacht
• Italian: superpotenza
• Portuguese: superpotência
• Russian: сверхдержа́ва
• Spanish: superpotencia, hiperpotencia

Translations

• French: superpouvoir
• German: Superkraft
• Italian: superpotere
• Portuguese: superpoder
• Russian: суперси́ла
• Spanish: superpoder

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