military power

English

Noun

military power (countable and uncountable, plural military powers)

  1. In jet aircraft technology, the maximum power of a jet aircraft without use of afterburners.[1]
  2. A great power with particular emphasis placed on its military aspect. Hypernym: great power
    • 1870, James Grant, The King's Own Borderers; a Military Romance‎[2], page 361:
      "England," says General Napier, "both at home and abroad was, in 1808, scorned a military power, when she possessed (without a frontier to swallow up large armies in expensive fortress) at least two hundred thousand of the best equipped and best disciplined soldiers in the universe, together with an immense recruiting establishment through the medium of the militia."

References

  1. ^ Graham, Richard H. (15 July 2008), Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission‎[1], MBI Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 56

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