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.
The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
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.
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.
From Late Latin potentialis, from Latin potentia (“power”), from potens (“powerful”). By surface analysis, potent + -ial.
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Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
And hath, in his effect, a voice potential
irrotational
From Maxwell equations (6.20) it follows that the electric field is potential: E(r) = −gradφ(r).