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:
“After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He will not idly dance at his work who has wood to cut and cord before nightfall in the short days of winter; but every stroke will be husbanded, and ring soberly through the wood; and so will the strokes of that scholar’s pen, which at evening record the story of the day, ring soberly, yet cheerily, on the ear of the reader, long after the echoes of his axe have died away.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)