POWERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does powered mean? 

• POWERED (adjective)
  The adjective POWERED has 1 sense:

1. (often used in combination) having or using or propelled by means of power or power of a specified kind

  Familiarity information: POWERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(often used in combination) having or using or propelled by means of power or power of a specified kind

Context example:

kerosine-powered jet engines

Similar:

battery-powered (powered by one or more electric batteries)

high-powered ((used of microscopes) capable of a high degree of magnification)

hopped-up ((of an automobile) having the engine modified to give extra power)

power-driven (powered by a motor)

steam-powered (powered by a steam engine)

supercharged ((of e.g. an engine) having the power increased by fitting with a supercharger)

Antonym:

unpowered (not having or using power)

 Context examples 

Astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered an unexpected link between two very different wavelengths of the light they emit, the mid-infrared and gamma rays.

(WISE, Fermi Missions Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection, NASA)

This was produced by the short-lived disk of debris that powered the gamma-ray burst.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)

A unit of measurement equal to 10 to the fifth power of the number of entities per unit of area equal to one high powered field.

(Hundred Thousand per High Powered Field, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This radiation could have powered chemical reactions in the cloud (nebula) that formed the solar system, and some of those reactions may have produced biologically important molecules like vitamin B3.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)

My dear Miss Woodhouse—I come quite over-powered.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As the most luminous steady beacons in the Universe, quasars are believed to be powered by an accretion disk around the central black hole.

(Astronomers Study How Quasars Are Powered by Accretion Disks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In a new study, the researchers reveal a new generation of two-tailed bots powered by skeletal muscle tissue stimulated by on-board motor neurons.

(Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves, National Science Foundation)

A unit of measurement equal to one hundred thousand entities per unit of area equal to one high powered field.

(Hundred Thousand per High Powered Field, NCI Thesaurus)

While Opportunity is powered by sunlight, which is blotted out by dust at its current location, Curiosity has a nuclear-powered battery that runs day and night.

(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)

The observed CH+ reveals dense shock waves, powered by hot, fast galactic winds originating inside the galaxies’ star forming regions.

(ALMA Finds Huge Hidden Reservoirs of Turbulent Gas in Distant Galaxies, ESO)