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n. 1 (lb en obsolete) Electricity generated in a large plant that is tied into a regional network, on a larger scale than was common in the early years of commercial electricity production. 2 Excessive or superior power. 3 A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the Soviet Union or United States. 4 A fictional extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.
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n. a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world [syn: world power, major power, great power, power]
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SuperPower is a 2002 political simulation computer game. SuperPower was designed by GolemLabs and published by DreamCatcher Interactive, debuting on March 28, 2002 for the PC. SuperPower 2 was released in 2004.
Superpower may refer to:
In politics:
- Superpower, a state with the ability to influence events and project power on a worldwide scale
- Second Superpower, a term used to conceptualize a global civil society as a counterpoint to the United States of America
- Energy superpower
- Potential superpowers
In mathematics:
- Tetration, superpower or hyperpower is used as synonym of tetration.
In music:
- SuperPower, a musician that was featured in Three 6 Mafia's hit, Lolli Lolli.
- "Super Powers", a song by The Dismemberment Plan from their 2001 album Change
- "Superpower" (song), a song by Beyoncé featuring Frank Ocean from her self-titled album (2013)
In sports:
- The Super Powers, a tag team in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions in the 1980s
- Super Cup (rugby union), an annual international Rugby Union competition, originally called Super Powers Cup
In gaming:
- SuperPower, a 2002 political simulation computer game
- SuperPower 2, a 2004 strategic wargame game
- Super PLAY, a video game magazine named Super POWER from 1993 to 1996
In TV:
- The Superpower, a 1983 Hong Kong TV series
- The Legendary Super Powers Show, an alternate title for a later season of Super Friends
- "Super Powers" (Homeland), a 2015 episode of the TV series Homeland
In other uses:
- Super Power Building, also known as the SP Building, a Church of Scientology high-rise complex in Clearwater, Florida
- Superpower (ability), extraordinary powers mostly possessed by fictional characters
- Super Powers Collection, a line of action figures based on DC Comics superheroes and supervillains, created in the 1980s by Kenner Toys
- Project Superpowers, a comic book from Dynamite Entertainment
Superpower is a popular culture term for a fictional superhuman ability. When a character possesses multiple such abilities, the terms super powers or simply powers are used. It is most frequently used in pulp magazines, comic books, science fiction, television programs and film as the key attribute of a superhero.
The concept originated in pulp magazines and comic books of the 1930s and 1940s, and has gradually worked its way into other genres and media.
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Category:2013 songs Category:Songs written by Pharrell Williams Category:Songs written by Beyoncé
"Superpower" is a song recorded by American recording artist Beyoncé featuring Frank Ocean from her fifth studio album, Beyoncé (2013). It was written by Beyoncé and Ocean along with Boots (credited under his real name Jordan Asher) and Pharrell Williams who also served as its producer. "Superpower" is a slow-tempo R&B and doo-wop ballad which features both singers singing with a low vocal register over a multi-layered track. Lyrically, it talks about the power of love and unity and the empowering effects of a long-lasting relationship. It was well received by music critics who praised the singers' vocals and its musical production characteristic of Williams.
The music video for the song was directed by Jonas Åkerlund and released on the album on December 13, 2013. It features the singer leading a protesting group in which numerous celebrities make cameo appearances, most notably the singer's former Destiny's Child group band mates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. The video does not feature lip syncing like the singer's other works and it is shot in slow motion. It received mostly positive reviews from critics who felt that it was a fit for the minimalistic track and an artistic statement. The song was not performed by Beyoncé but was used as a snippet in interludes during various performances.
Superpower, The Game of Global Exploitation was a board game published by Games Workshop in 1986. The game was written by E. Bruce Hollands and Daniel R. McGregor and drew heavily on the iconography of the late cold war era. Players choose a coloured token and draw a number of cards representing world opinion, third world countries and invasions, and then progress through the game seeking to control third world countries and manage world opinion by propaganda.
Players work to destabilise countries by coup d'etat, military response, military fortification and invasion - each action of which costs world opinion, which is played out in 'diplomacy' utilising the iconography of the United Nations.
The game board was a stylised map of the world split into four regions with a path of came spaces running around them, small coloured tokens representing military forces were placed on countries coming under the player's control (similarly to the method used in monopoly with houses and hotels)
Up to six players could play with games taking between 90 minutes and two hours on average.
Usage examples of "superpower".
Moreover, the United States is not some rogue superpower determined to do what it wants regardless of who it threatens or angers.
He would do everything he could to show that an invasion was unnecessary and that the United States was a rogue superpower determined to crush any Muslim state that got out of line.
Maybe their superpower was the strange ability to beat somebody to a pulp if he tried to escape.
Then it occurred to me that he had large, powerful employees whose superpower was to make life unpleasant for guys who things occurred to.
A superpower is a superpower even if it only allows you to drive a truck better than anybody else.
The driver was always an android, probably with the superpower of finding places to park.
But the Soviet Union was never a superpower because of its booming economy.
He seemed to have acquired, as Sammy remarked, a superpower of his own: he had become a magnet for Germans.
Folks thought it would be a great way to encourage superpower cooperation.
Meanwhile, thanks largely to support from the United States, Israel has become a kind of superpower, able to defy its entire region and Europe as well.
One beneficial outcome of this conflict is the demise of the superpower system - a relic of days bygone and best forgotten.
After Iran took its place in the civilized world as a superpower once again.
Either Blossom was hiding her superpower, or her human genes had proved dominant and she was just your everyday, average, appealing-as-all-hell woman.
According to his analysis, Blossom carried a rare genetic mutation that had prevented her superpower from manifesting with the first influx of puberty hormones, as was typical with super offspring.
A number of these assessments base their conclusions on the experience between the United States and the Soviet Union during the latter half of the Cold War, when both superpowers recognized that there was no possible gain from aggression that was worth the risk of an escalation to nuclear warfare and so generally refrained from any provocative moves toward each other.