strength: meaning and definitions
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The ability to maintain a moral or intellectual position firmly.
The state, property, or quality of being strong.
The power to resist attack; impregnability.
The power to resist strain or stress; durability.
Capacity or potential for effective action: a show of strength.
The number of people constituting a normal or ideal organization: The police force has been at half strength since the budget cuts.
Military capability in terms of personnel and materiel: an army of fearsome strength.
A source of power or force.
One that is regarded as the embodiment of protective or supportive power; a support or mainstay.
An attribute or quality of particular worth or utility; an asset.
Degree of intensity, force, effectiveness, or potency in terms of a particular property, as:
Degree of concentration, distillation, or saturation; potency.
Operative effectiveness or potency.
Intensity, as of sound or light.
Intensity or vehemence, as of emotion or language.
Effective or binding force; efficacy: the strength of an argument.
Firmness of or a continuous rising tendency in prices, as on the stock market.
Games Power derived from the value of playing cards held.
on the strength of On the basis of: She was hired on the strength of her computer skills.