potential esperantoksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-esperanto)

Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to)
(physics) The gravitational potential is the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
(physics) 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.
(grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.

Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
(archaic) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
(physics) A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.
(physics) A potential flow is an irrotational flow.
(grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.

Even from a young age it was clear that she had the potential to become a great musician.
The heroic man,—and is not every man, God be thanked, a potential hero?—has to do so, in all times and circumstances.
And hath, in his effect, a voice potential
From Maxwell equations (6.20) it follows that the electric field is potential: E(r) = −gradφ(r).
The non-viscous flow of the vacuum should be potential (irrotational).

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