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- Potential - a. - Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
- Potential - a. - Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
- Potential - n. - Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
- Potential - 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.
- Potential - n. - 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.
- Potentiality - n. - The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
- Potentially - adv. - With power; potently.
- Potentially - adv. - In a potential manner; possibly, not positively.
- Potential - 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.
- Life - n. - Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government.
- Virtuality - n. - Potentiality; efficacy; potential existence.
- Potentially - adv. - In a potential manner; possibly, not positively.
- Voltage - n. - Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.
- Ohm - n. - The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm.
- Life - n. - The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual.
- Voltmeter - n. - An instrument for measuring in volts the differences of potential between different points of an electrical circuit.
- Entelechy - n. - An actuality; a conception completely actualized, in distinction from mere potential existence.
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