potential

Meaning of potential

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.
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.

Information about potential

  • The plural form of potential is: potentials.
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Hyphenation of potential

po-ten-tial

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • potential is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

potential synonyms

Meaning possible:

possible

Meaning expected:

expected, likely

Meaning potentiality:

potentiality, potency

Meaning electric potential:

voltage

Meaning :

noumenon, spirit, noumenal, spiritual, virtual, efficacious, influential

potential antonyms

Meaning :

matter, phenomenon, actual, phenomenal, real

Translation of potential

Anagrams of potential

peltation

Words that rhyme with potential

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