Usually means: Exponentiation function, raises number power.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word pow:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. pow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. POW, pow: Merriam-Webster
  3. POW, POW, pow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. POW: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pow: Collins English Dictionary
  6. POW: Vocabulary.com
  7. POW, Pow, pow: Wordnik
  8. POW, PoW, pow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. POW, pow: Wiktionary
  10. pow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. POW, pow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. POW, p.o.w: Dictionary.com
  14. P.O.W, pow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. P.O.W, P.O.W. (TV series), P.O.W (Bullet for My Valentine song), POW (disambiguation), POW, Pow (surname), Pow, Pow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pow: Rhymezone
  18. POW: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. pow: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. POW: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. POW: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. POW (disambiguation), pow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. POW: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. POW: Acronym Finder
  3. POW: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. P.O.W, The Pow: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See pows as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (PoW)

noun:  The sound of a violent impact.
noun:  The sound of an explosion.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (military) Initialism of prisoner of war. [A combatant or soldier who is captured by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.]
noun:  (religion) Initialism of place of worship. [A place, usually a building such as a church, mosque, synagogue or temple where believers can practise their faith.]
noun:  (cryptography, cryptocurrencies) Alternative letter-case form of PoW (“proof of work”)
noun:  (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Alternative form of poll [A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.]
noun:  (skiing slang) Clipping of powder (“powder snow”). [The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.]
noun:  (countable and uncountable, cryptography, cryptocurrencies) Initialism of proof of work. [(cryptography, cryptocurrencies) A form of cryptographic proof in which a prover proves to verifiers that a certain amount of a specific computational effort has been expended.]
noun:  (countable) Alternative letter-case form of POW (“prisoner of war”).

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