Potential
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Potential
-
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 a.
Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
-
7 a.
Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
-
8 n.
Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
-
9 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.
-
10 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.