low-powered

English

Adjective

low-powered (comparative lower-powered, superlative lowest-powered)

  1. (electricity, electronics, mechanical engineering) Possessing little power or capacity.
    • 1958 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 412:
      To me it seems that extensive investment in relatively low-powered units may have the same ultimate result of motive power shortage as that which afflicts the London Midland Region today, and which has compelled the re-engining of some of the earlier multiple-unit diesel train sets.
  2. (optics) Of an instrument, capable of minimal magnification.
    Antonym: high-powered
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