potential

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A 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.”

2. isim The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
3. isim 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. isim A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
5. sıfat Existing 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.”

6. sıfat Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result

   “And hath, in his effect, a voice potential”

7. sıfat irrotational

   “From Maxwell equations (6.20) it follows that the electric field is potential: E(r) = −gradφ(r).”

8. sıfat irrotational (see potential flow on Wikipedia)

   “The non-viscous flow of the vacuum should be potential (irrotational).”

9. sıfat Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.