potential
potential is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
- adjective. Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
- noun. Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
- noun. the inherent capacity for coming into being
- adjective. existing in possibility
"a potential problem"
"possible uses of nuclear power"
- adjective. expected to become or be; in prospect
"potential clients"
Synonyms
voltage, potency, potentiality, possible, likely
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in potential:
Common word forms
potentials, potentially, potentiality, potentialize, potentialness
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