Words Like POTENTIAL
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15 Alternative Words Similar to potential
1 examples of potential
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possible uses of nuclear power
10 definitions of potential
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Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
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Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
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Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
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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 coördinates 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.
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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.
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the inherent capacity for coming into being
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existing in possibility
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expected to become or be; in prospect
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the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
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Capable of being but not yet in existence; latent: a potential problem.