Potential

Noun

 * 1) Currently unrealized ability.
 * Even from a young age it was clear that she had great musical potential.
 * 1)  The gravitational potential is the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
 * 2)  The work required to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
 * 3)  A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.

Related terms

 * potence
 * potency
 * potent
 * potentate
 * potentiality

Adjective

 * 1) Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
 * 2)  Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
 * 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).
 * 1)  A potential flow is an irrotational flow.
 * The non-viscous flow of the vacuum should be potential (irrotational).
 * 1)  Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.

Thesaurus
EMF, ability, aptitude, bare possibility, between the lines, budding, bump, caliber, capability, capacity, chance, cogitable, concealed, conceivability, conceivable, conceivableness, conceivably possible, conditional, contingency, contingent, covert, cryptic, delitescent, developing, dormant, dower, dowry, electric potential, electromotive force, electromotivity, embryonic, endowment, equipment, esoteric, even chance, eventuality, faculty, flair, forte, future, genius, gift, good chance, good possibility, hibernating, hidden, hope, humanly possible, imaginable, imminent, imperative, implicit, implied, indicative, instinct, jussive, latent, likelihood, likely, long suit, lurking, makings, metier, mode, mood, muffled, mystic, natural endowment, natural gift, obfuscated, obligative, obscured, occult, off chance, optative, outside chance, outside hope, parts, passive, permissive, plausible, possibilities, possibility, possible, possibleness, potency, potential difference, potentiality, power, powers, probability, probable, prospect, qualification, quiescent, remote possibility, sleeping, small hope, speciality, strong flair, strong point, subjunctive, submerged, talent, talents, the attainable, the feasible, the goods, the possible, the stuff, thinkability, thinkable, thinkableness, under the surface, underlying, undeveloped, unmanifested, unrealized, veiled, virtual, virtuality, volt, voltage, what is possible, what it takes, what may be, what might be

Etymology
From potentialis <  potentia: < potens:; see potent.

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Noun

 * 1) potential

Related terms

 * potens
 * potentialvandring
 * potentiell