How to pronounce “potential”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
• (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
• (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
• (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
• [Adjective]
• Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
• (archaic) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
• (physics, of a field) irrotational
• (physics, of a flow) irrotational (see potential flow on Wikipedia)
• (grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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