potential
Meaning of potential
- 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.
- 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.
- Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
- Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
- 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.
Information about potential
- The plural form of potential is: potentials.
- Languages in which potential is used:
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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:
Meaning expected:
Meaning potentiality:
Meaning electric potential:
Meaning :
noumenon, spirit, noumenal, spiritual, virtual, efficacious, influential
potential antonyms
Meaning :
matter, phenomenon, actual, phenomenal, real
Translation of potential
- German: Möglichkeit, Potential
- Italian: potenzialità, potenziale
- Spanish: potencial
- French: potentiel
Anagrams of potential
Words that rhyme with potential
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