Power Stroke

Power Stroke may refer to:

In motoring:

  • Power stroke (engine), the stroke of a cyclic motor which generates force
  • Ford Power Stroke engine, Ford diesel engine

Other:

  • In baseball, a batter who hits for extra bases is said to have a power stroke
  • In biology, the term power stroke refers to the molecular interactions of muscle contraction
  • In firearm handling, the term power stroke refers to racking the slide after inserting a fresh magazine to chamber a round, instead of using the slide release to do the same.

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or stroke:

    “Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.”
    —Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    “I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken’s wing.”
    —William Gass (b. 1924)