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Potential
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(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.
(3):
(a.) Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
(4):
(n.) Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
(5):
(a.) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Potential'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/potential.html. 1828.
