POTENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does potency mean? 

• POTENCY (noun)
  The noun POTENCY has 4 senses:

1. the power or right to give orders or make decisions

2. capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects

3. the inherent capacity for coming into being

4. the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse

  Familiarity information: POTENCY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POTENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The power or right to give orders or make decisions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

authorisation; authority; authorization; dominance; potency; say-so

Context example:

a place of potency in the state

Hypernyms ("potency" is a kind of...):

control (power to direct or determine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "potency"):

power of appointment (authority given (in a will or deed) by a donor to a donee to appoint the beneficiaries of the donor's property)

carte blanche (complete freedom or authority to act)

command (the power or authority to command)

imperium (supreme authority; absolute dominion)

lordship (the authority of a lord)

muscle (authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way))

sovereignty (the authority of a state to govern another state)

Derivation:

potent (having or wielding force or authority)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

effectiveness; potency; strength

Context example:

the strength of the drinks

Hypernyms ("potency" is a kind of...):

power; powerfulness (possession of controlling influence)

Attribute:

potent; stiff; strong (having a strong physiological or chemical effect)

impotent (lacking power or ability)

Derivation:

potent (having a strong physiological or chemical effect)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The inherent capacity for coming into being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

potency; potential; potentiality

Hypernyms ("potency" is a kind of...):

possibility; possibleness (capability of existing or happening or being true)

Attribute:

possible; potential (existing in possibility)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "potency"):

latency (the state of being not yet evident or active)

chance; prospect (the possibility of future success)

Derivation:

potential (existing in possibility)

potential (expected to become or be; in prospect)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

potence; potency

Hypernyms ("potency" is a kind of...):

physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)

Antonym:

impotency (an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate)

Derivation:

potent ((of a male) capable of copulation)

 Context examples 

In medicine, the effect of increasing the potency or effectiveness of a drug or other treatment.

(Chemosensitization, NCI Dictionary)

A synthetic cytokine and interleukin-3 (IL-3) receptor agonist with enhanced hematopoietic potency.

(Daniplestim, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent has been chemically modified to enhance the potency and stability of camptothecin.

(Camptothecin Analogue TLC388, NCI Thesaurus)

A qualitative or quantitative analysis performed to determine the amount of a particular constituent in a sample or the biological or pharmacological potency of a drug.

(Assay, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent exhibits greater bioavailability and higher anti-estrogenic potency in the breast than does raloxifene; it exhibits reduced estrogenicity in the uterus compared with either tamoxifen or raloxifene.

(Arzoxifene, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent does not require enzymatic activation and exhibits greater potency than camptothecin and other camptothecin analogues.

(Exatecan mesylate, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of potency expressed as a number of 50 percent infectious doses as defined in the particular fluorescent assay method per dose of preparation.

(Fluorescent Assay Infectious Dose 50 Percent per Dose, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of potency of a biological product expressed as a quantity of viable infectious entities capable to produce a cytopathic effect in the appropriate cell culture per one milliliter of the preparation.

(Plaque Forming Unit per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)

The modified mRNAs in this vaccine are taken up by cells after injection and exhibit enhanced translational potency.

(Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer mRNA-Derived Vaccine CV9201, NCI Thesaurus)

The mRNAs used in this vaccine are modified to have enhanced translational potency and adjuvant activities.

(mRNA-derived Prostate Cancer Vaccine CV9104, NCI Thesaurus)