Clues for the word "POTENTIAL"

We've had 13 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 15 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on November 28, 2024.

Definition of potential

a. - Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
a. - Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
n. - Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
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.
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.