Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The capacity of a weapon to deliver fire onto a target.

    Feuerkraft

    огнева́я мощьognevája moščʹ

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

  2. (countable, uncountable)The ability to deliver fire.

    Schlagkraft

    огнева́я мощьognevája moščʹ, результати́вностьrezulʹtatívnostʹ

  3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The ability and resources to dominate.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. We're no longer afraid of your firepower.

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  2. No matter how many troops they have or how much firepower they have, we'll crush them if they invade our country.

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  3. France couldn't overwhelm Algerian independence fighters with its firepower.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
capacity of a weapon:
sport: ability to score:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
capacity of a weapon:
sport: ability to score:

Origin

From fire + power.

From fire + power.

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Forms

plural: firepowers
Singularfirepower
Pluralfirepowers

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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