English Dictionary

potential

IPA（発音記号）

/pəˈtɛnʃəl/

形容詞

比較不可 古語

Existing in possibility, not in actuality. / (archaic) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result / (physics) A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.

日本語の意味

1. 実際には存在していなくても、起こりうる可能性・潜在性がある状態。 / 2. （古語で）力が充分に備わっている、成果を生む能力があるという意味。 / 3. （物理学で）回転せず静的な場、すなわちポテンシャル場の意味。

The scientist presented a potential solution to the energy crisis, but it still needs to be tested.

その科学者はエネルギー危機に対する潜在的な解決策を示したが、まだ検証が必要だ。

意味（1）

Existing in possibility, not in actuality.

The heroic man,—and is not every man, God be thanked, a potential hero?—has to do so, in all times and circumstances.

意味（2）

(archaic) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result

And hath, in his effect, a voice potential

意味（3）

(physics) A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.

From Maxwell equations (6.20) it follows that the electric field is potential: E(r) = −gradφ(r).

意味（4）

(physics) A potential flow is an irrotational flow.

The non-viscous flow of the vacuum should be potential (irrotational).

意味（5）

(grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.