potential /pə-tenˈshl/

1. Latent
2. Possible or likely, though as yet not tested or actual
3. Expressing power, possibility, liberty, or obligation (grammar)
4. Powerful, efficacious

1. The range of capabilities that a person or thing has
2. Powers or resources not yet developed or made use of
3. Anything that may be possible
4. A possibility
5. The potential or subjunctive mood, or a verb in it (grammar)
6. The work done in bringing a unit of mass, electricity, etc from infinity to a point in a field of force, expressed as a function of that point (physics)

potentialˈity noun

potenˈtialize or potenˈtialise transitive verb and intransitive verb

potenˈtially adverb

potential barrier noun (physics)

A place in a field of force where the potential is high and the passage of particles impeded

potential difference noun (physics)

A difference in the electrical states existing at two points, which causes a current to tend to flow between them

potential divider same as voltage divider (see under volt¹).

potential energy noun (physics)

The power of doing work, possessed by a body in virtue of its position

potential well noun (physics)

An area of low potential in a field of force

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