potential

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for potential

potential 🔊 /pʌtɛˈnʃʌl or pʌtɛˈnʧʌl/

potential : විභව්‍ය

potential : සම්භාව්‍ය

potential : ගුප්ත

potential : විභව

potential : විභවය

potential : වියහැකි

potential : ශක්තිසම්පන්න

potential : භව්‍ය

potential : දියුණු කළහැකි

potential definition

Adjective.

  1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
  2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality.

Noun.

  1. Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
  2. 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 functioNoun. 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.
  3. 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.