influence

Noun

influence (countable and uncountable; plural influences)

1. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions; the status of being able to dictate the actions or behaviors of an object or person; moral or political power over a person or group; ascendancy.

   I have absolutely no influence over him.

2. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.

   I"m not able to exercise influence over him.

3. A person or thing exerting such power or action.

   He has been a great influence on the voters during the elections.

4. (astrology) An element believed by some to determine someone"s character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one"s birth.
5. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
6. (electricity) Induction.

9 letters in word "influence": C E E F I L N N U.

No anagrams for influence found in this word list.

• Definitions:
• a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; "used her parents' influence to get the job" causing something without any direct or apparent effort have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate" a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking" determine: shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion" the effect of one thing (or person) on another; "the influence of mechanical action" one having power to influence another; "she was the most important influence in my life"; "he was a bad influence on the children" charm: induce into action by using one's charm; "She charmed him into giving her all his money"
• Influence is a 2005 play by Australian playwright David Williamson that premiered with the Sydney Theatre Company. It was Williamson's final play before he announced his retirement from main-stage productions in 2005.
• Influence is an album released in 1996 by New Zealand hip-hop group, Ardijah.
• BuzzLogic calculates influence in social media networks on the basis of four tenets:
• when loosely speaking about persuasion we are in the field of (social) influence, defined as: “affecting or changing how someone behaves or thinks”.
• in mediumistic terminology is equivalent to spirits. Mrs. Piper applied it to objects which, by virtues of association of ideas, or magnetism of the late owner, helped her to establish communication with the deceased. ...
• investigates the causes of human change--whether that change is a behavior, an attitude, or a belief. Inducing a change in behavior is called compliance. Inducing a change in attitude is called persuasion. ...
• Strategic locations must also, to a certain extent, influence the decisions of competitors and the potential clients. ...
• Influence is the phase of a turn in which a Methuselah may bring new vampires under her control from her uncontrolled region by moving blood counters from her pool onto the vampire.
• Having power or an effect on another object or person.
• is the process by which one party attempts to modify the behaviour of others by mobilising power resources.
• The power or process of producing an effect upon a person by imperceptible or intangible means
• A message m is influenced by a server s iff the sending of m causally depends on some message sent by s. In an execution e, server a is influenced by the set of servers S iff for each s in S there exists a message m received by a that was influenced by s. [2]

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