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prepotential, a. (n.)|priːpəʊˈtɛnʃəl|
[f. pre- A. 3 + potential.]
1. Having a prior or superior power; prepotent.
1888Academy 24 Nov. 329/3 What a contrast between those days..and our times of ‘telegraphic ambassadors’ and a prepotential ‘clerkery’!
2. Math. (See quot.) Also as n. A prepotential function.
1875Cayley Memoir on Prepotentials in Coll. Math. Papers IX. 318 The present Memoir relates to multiple integrals expressed in terms of the (s + 1) ultimately disappearing variables (x,.., z, w), and the same number of parameters (a,.., c, e)... Such an integral, in regard to the index ½s + q, is said to be ‘prepotential’, and in the particular case q = - ½ to be ‘potential’. Ibid. 324 The prepotential of the whole surface in regard to the indefinitely near point P is thus equal to the prepotential of the disk. |