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.

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

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

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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