Power (from Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms)
Statistics Explained
Power

For a statistician, the power of a test is the probability that the test will reject the hypothesis tested when a specific alternative hypothesis is true. To calculate the power of a given test it is necessary to specify alpha (the probability that the test will lead to the rejection of the hypothesis tested when that hypothesis is true) and to specify a specific alternative hypothesis.

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