potential
Word Statistics
Academic vocabulary
Regularly used in writing and speech
Moderate complexity
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noun
1. Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to)
"Even from a young age it was clear that she had the potential to become a great musician."
2. The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
3. 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.
4. (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
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adjective
1. Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
2. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
3. A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.
4. A potential flow is an irrotational flow.
5. (grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.
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Source: en.wiktionary.org
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