Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The energy produced by running or falling water that is used for driving machinery, especially for generating electricity.
- noun A source of such energy, as a waterfall.
- noun A water right owned by a mill.
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- noun Alternative form of
water power . - noun The capacity to shoot
water , as from a fire hose or squirt gun
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Examples
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Where waterpower is least abundant, coal in vast quantities is near at hand.
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Until quite recently our immense wealth in waterpower was treated in the same way.
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It is supplied with numerous small streams, affording ample waterpower, which is applied to manufacturing purposes.
A Geography for Beginners. Kensey Johns 1864
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Mr. Mansfield's chapters on the legacy of waterpower and the landscape echoes of King Philip's War
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The town of Meaux has a busy population of about 10,000 souls, in peaceable times principally occupied in manufacturing flour for the Paris market, having a fine waterpower for the many mills.
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Manchuria is fertile land, rich in waterpower, coal deposits, and iron ore.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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This food was used to induce otherwise unemployed ex farmers to produce more machines, which could in turn use more coal and/or waterpower to produce more goods for exchange for more food.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 6~ The Historical Circumstances 2009
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Around the points in the economy where the use of new converters permits the utilization of the surplus energy, nuclear fuel, gas, coal, oil, and waterpower, there form pools of unclaimed surplus energy.
Energy and Society~ Chapter 12~ The Distribution of Consumer Goods 2009
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Progress has depended upon the increasing control of energy ... the Rhinelanders harnessed oxen, the Benedictines waterpower.
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Great powers, as many historians have noted, have risen by embracing a particular energy source -- for the Dutch, wind and waterpower; for the British, coal; for the United States, oil – and fallen when they failed to embrace the newer and more efficient sources of energy their rivals adopted.
bilby commented on the word waterpower
Is this like a watery equivalent measure to say horsepower?
October 29, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word waterpower
Or firepower?
October 29, 2015