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empower
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Empower \Em*pow"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empowered; p. pr. & vb. n. Empowering.]
To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.
To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to. ``These eyes . . . empowered to gaze.''
--Keble.to enable or permit; to give more opportunity for independent action.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Empower may refer to:
- EMPOWER, a Thai organization supporting sex workers
- EmPower (aircraft power adapter), a standard for 15-volt direct current power outlets in passenger airplanes
- Empower (emergy), the flow of emergy (embodied energy)
- Empower (software), a chromatography software developed by Waters Corporation
Empower is a software produced by Waters Corporation allowing the user to control chromatography instruments and to process data (for use with HPLC, UPLC, and Gas Chromatography systems)
EmPower is a 15 volt DC connector type found on many commercial airlines designed to provide power to travelers' electronic devices. The system is limited to 75 watts. The use of a special connector is to prevent laptops charging at altitude and ensure that only approved adapters can be used.
Some airlines offer it only in business class or only in certain types of aircraft or flights. Travelers can buy EmPower adapters, frequently from duty-free shops at airports, that allow them to run laptops and other electronic equipment without using battery power.
Supporting airlines include:
- Some Air France flights
- Some Air India flights
- Some American Airlines flights
- Some British Airways flights
- Some Delta Air Lines flights
- Some Qantas flights
- Some United Airlines flights
- Some Virgin Atlantic flights
- Almost all Alitalia flights
- Almost all Cathay Pacific flights
- Others (The SeatGuru web site contains more detailed information on which flights support EmPower)
Adapters exist to connect EmPower plugs to cigarette lighter receptacles and most EmPower power adapters come with these.
EmPower is a trademark registered initially by Primex Technologies (VA) and assigned to Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems, Inc in Kirkland, Washington, USA. Subsequently, the trademark has been expanded to include not just the proprietary DC 15 V connector but also the AC 120 V 60 Hz in-seat power (and video entertainment) systems. American Airlines uses EmPower 120 V AC outlets (standard 2 prong plus ground) on their newer 737s.
Many laptops will not function properly at 75 W. The new AC 60 Hz EmPower system provides more power than the DC system.
The AC EmPower system converts aircraft AC 400 Hz or wild frequency power to standard AC 60 Hz to prevent additional stresses in laptop chargers already stressed by reduced cooling at altitude. Note that laptops on this system will still charge batteries. Modern laptop batteries, however include a temperature sensor that should compensate for the reduced cooling at altitude. This new system accepts various national power plugs and most laptop chargers will function properly at AC 110 V 60 Hz even if sold in AC 230 V 50 Hz markets.
Apple offered an EmPower Magsafe power adapter for their MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air lines of notebooks, and also includes a cigarette lighter socket adapter. However, this system only runs the computer and will not charge the computer's battery, and Apple warns users to never plug this device into a car's cigarette lighter outlet. This product has since been discontinued.
Even though EmPower adapters are rated at 15 volts instead of 12 volts like cigar lighter receptacles, most accessories made for the so-called "12-volt outlets" have enough voltage tolerance to allow for a voltage as high as 15 without step down DC-to-DC converter.
Usage examples of "empower".
This is not the dissolution of the Cartesian ego, but its hyperinflation to cosmic proportions: a temporary transfusion of higher domains has empowered a monster.
That law establishes an Atomic Energy Commission of five members which is empowered to conduct through its own facilities, or by contracts with, or loans to private persons, research and developmental activity relating to nuclear processes, the theory and production of atomic energy and the utilization of fissionable and radioactive materials for medical, industrial and other purposes.
When the mutiny bill fell under deliberation, the earl of Egmont proposed a new clause for empowering and requiring regimental courts-martial to examine witnesses upon oath in all their trials.
The trouble is that one single Indiaman taken would be exceedingly damaging to us and more immediately profitable than any subsidy I am empowered to offer: and in these parts the outcome of the war seems by no means as certain as I could wish.
By the kindness of Lord Godalming, I am empowered to read her letters and papers, for I am deeply concerned about certain matters vitally important.
Grinnell, who were by my directions especially empowered by the Secretary of the Navy to act for his department in that crisis in matters pertaining to the forwarding of troops and supplies for the public defense.
In the event of a tie, the speaker, a nonvoting member, was empowered to break the deadlock.
He demonstrated by copious historical proofs and masterly logic that the fathers who created the Constitution in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, and to secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity, intended to empower the Federal Government to exclude slavery from the Territories.
But the common person is apparently not fit to rule herself according to Strauss or Anakin, and the Straussian statesman is empowered to utilize many means, including deception, the stirring of patriotism, and manufactured threats in order to keep power.
Empowering and then immediately using Weathermaker will probably leave her incapacitated for days.
The act of 1789 empowered the courts to issue writs, to require parties to produce testimony, to punish contempts, to make rules, and to grant stays of execution.
In some cases, this may mean changing the longstanding principle of military centralization and empowering individual soldiers, sailors, and airmen to be crucial components in applying and directing the application of force.
An Englishman named Acton commended me to an English banker at Leghorn, but this letter did not empower me to draw any supplies.
States of grace, as only one of many examples, gives an unrelenting history of Woman as Eternal Victim, which is presumably meant to empower women, but actually and profoundly dissolves the power of women in the very first step by defining them as primarily molded by an Other.
I am not empowered to communicate the secret to anyone before I reach the age of fifty.