Firepower

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  firepower \firepower\ n.
     1. (military) The relative capacity for delivering weapons
        fire on a target; as, the battleship has more firepower
        than a cruiser.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  


     2. [figurative] A measure of the resources available to a
        group which allows them to achieve their objectives;
        capacity for action.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  firepower
       n : (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a
           target

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "firepower":
     antiaircraft fire, cross fire, curtain fire, direct fire, dry fire,
     fighting force, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, fireworks,
     firing, flack, flak, forces, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire,
     gunplay, hands, high-angle fire, horizontal fire,
     interdiction fire, machine-gun fire, men, mortar fire, musketry,
     percussion fire, personnel, pistol fire, raking fire, rapid fire,
     ricochet fire, rifle fire, shellfire, shoot-out, shooting,
     the big battalions, time fire, troops, units, vertical fire,
     work force, zone fire