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Meaning of 'potential'
Meaning of 'potential' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Potential 
[ a.]
- Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result;
efficacious; influential. [ a.]- Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
2. Potential [ n.]
- Anything that may be possible; a possibility;
potentially. [ 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.
- 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.
Meaning of 'potential' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. potential [ a]
[ a]Meaning (1):
- existing in possibility
- existing in possibility
Example in sentence:
- a potential problem;
- possible uses of nuclear power
2. potential [ s]
[ s]Meaning (2):
- expected to become or be; in prospect
- expected to become or be; in prospect
Example in sentence:
- potential clients
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