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How to pronounce potential
Say it like this: /pəˈtɛnʃəl/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does potential mean?
nounA currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
“Even from a young age it was clear that she had the potential to become a great musician.”
The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
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
adjExisting in possibility, not in actuality.
“The heroic man,—and is not every man, God be thanked, a potential hero?—has to do so, in all times and circumstances.”
Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
“And hath, in his effect, a voice potential”
irrotational
“From Maxwell equations (6.20) it follows that the electric field is potential: E(r) = −gradφ(r).”
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