3syllables
potential
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Definitions ofpotential
1noun
- Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to)
Example: "Even from a young age it was clear that she had the potential to become a great musician."
- The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
1adjective
- Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
- Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
Synonyms: efficacious, influential
- A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.
- A potential flow is an irrotational flow.
- (grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.
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