second power

1. 1.

   the product of two equal terms

   “nine is the second power of three”

   “gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance”

   Synonymssquare

   Broadernumber

Questions about second power

What does second power mean?

second power means "the product of two equal terms".

What is another word for second power?

Close synonyms include square. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is second power a common word?

second power 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.