potency
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- n the power or right to give orders or make decisions
a place of potency in the state - n capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects
the toxin's potency - n the inherent capacity for coming into being
- n the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse
- Next, they gave him high-potency formulations of iron supplements and vitamins, plus "industrial doses" of a blood-building drug, synthetic erythropoietin, that stimulates the bone .
- The active ingredient in that mold, which Fleming named penicillin, turned out to be an infection-fighting agent of enormous potency.
- Attributing the 28-point gap between potency and closeness to possible sampling errors, he predicted that "social potency will drop and social closeness will creep up.