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What does potential mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word potential? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to)
  2. (physics) The gravitational potential is the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
  3. (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.
  4. (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
Adjective
  1. Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
  2. (archaic) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
  3. (physics) A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.
  4. (physics) A potential flow is an irrotational flow.
  5. (grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.
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