second power
Noun
Meaning
the product of two equal terms
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Examples
Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.
If we have two spherical bodies of equal mass at a given distance from each other and insert a third spherical body of the same mass half way between the two we do not double the mass attraction between any two of the three. We increase the attraction by 2 to the second power which is 4.
nine is the second power of three
gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance