POTENTIAL

Potential

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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 is the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the 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. A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.

Adjective

  1. Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
    The heroic man,—and is not every man, God be thanked, a potential hero?—has to do so, in all times and circumstances.
  2. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
    And hath, in his effect, a voice potential
  3. A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.
    From Maxwell equations (6.20) it follows that the electric field is potential: E(r) = −gradφ(r).
  4. A is an irrotational flow.
    The non-viscous flow of the vacuum should be potential (irrotational).
  5. Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.


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