Thesaurus: potential

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1. a. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
2. a. Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
3. n. Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
4. n. In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.
5. n. The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.
6. adj. existing in possibility
7. adj. expected to become or be; in prospect
8. n. the inherent capacity for coming into being
9. n. the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
10. In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting inspace, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine theposition of a point, such that its differential coefficients withrespect to the coördinates are equal to the components of the forceat the point considered; -- also called potential function, or forcefunction. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force isdirected to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of thedistance from the center.
11. j:64/n:36 n. the inherent capacity for coming into being a. existing in possibility