third power
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- noun
- /θɜrd ˈpaʊər/
- Specialized
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tercera potencia
- Since the force produced by the muscles is proportional to their cross-sectional area, the torque would be proportional to the third power of length (m³).
And remember, since this is to the third power, right, do I have all of my zeros?
- And remember, since this is to the third power, right, do I have all of my zeros?
Examples
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So all of those numbers I can rewrite as a number raised to the third power, which is the same as my index.
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OK, so it's made-up of these powers of West, the zero, first, second and third power, and then higher powers.
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And remember, since this is to the third power, right, do I have all of my zeros?
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So square root raised to the third power plus square root of Y evaluated on one to nine.
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The three P count of A by the identity earlier is simply the third power of the Fourier transforms, OK.
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"Even if the sun is not shining brightly, you can still run your pump at one-third power," Hammell said.
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See, I'm small and thin—and muscle size needs to scale with body mass, so it scales with the third power of linear measures.
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Curiously, 216 is the cube of 6, or 6 to the third power, 6*6*6 = 216, and 216*5 = 1080 = 63*5.
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The volume of a cube can be calculated by raising the length of one side to the third power.
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To find the third power of 4, multiply 4 by itself twice, resulting in 64.
Synonyms
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4.4
The result of multiplying a number by itself twice
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines the ordinal 'third' (three) with the mathematical noun 'power' (an exponent), so its meaning 'the cube / exponent 3 of a number' is directly derivable from the parts. This is a literal, domain-specific composition common across languages and standard in math, so a learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Third power comes from the words third and power: you multiply a number by itself twice. Think of a small box, a 'cube', where you get the volume by multiplying length times width times height, so third power means the 'cube' of a number.