power-assisted

1. 1.

   supplementing or replacing manual effort

   “power-assisted steering”

   Similarassisted

Questions about power-assisted

What does power-assisted mean?

power-assisted means "supplementing or replacing manual effort".

How many syllables are in power-assisted?

power-assisted has 5 syllables and divides as po-we-r-as-si-sted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is power-assisted a common word?

power-assisted is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.