Võimsuste

Võimsuste is the genitive plural form of the Estonian noun võimsus, which means power, capacity, or output. In everyday language võimsus refers to the ability of a person or machine to perform work, as well as to the measurable output of a device, such as electrical or mechanical power. The plural nominative is võimsused, while the genitive plural is võimsuste, used to indicate possession or relation, as in phrases like võimsuste piirid (the limits of powers/capacities) or võimsuste suurus (the size of capacities).

Grammatical note: Võimsus is a standard Estonian noun with typical declension. In contexts requiring a possessive or qualitative link, the genitive plural võimsuste is used after numerals, adjectives, or other modifiers. The form is common in technical, economic, and organizational language when talking about multiple capacities, capabilities, or outputs of entities such as machines, systems, or organizations.

Meanings and usage: In technical fields võimsus commonly denotes output or capacity of a device or system, measured in units such as watts or kilowatts in engineering, or in abstract terms as computational or processing power. In more general language võimsus can refer to a person’s or group’s abilities or potential. It should be distinguished from võim (power in the political or authoritative sense), and from võimsus used in a strictly physical or engineering sense.

See also: võimsus, võimed, võimsused. The term is primarily used in Estonian technical and formal writing to describe the capacities or outputs of systems, rather than political authority.