Potential
31potential — /pə tenʃəl/ adjective possible ♦ potential customers people who could be customers ♦ potential market a market which could be exploited ♦ the product has potential sales of 100,000 units the product will possibly sell 100,000 units ♦ she is a… …
32potential — /pə tenʃəl/ adjective possible ♦ potential customers people who could be customers ♦ potential market a market which could be exploited ■ noun the possibility of becoming something ♦ a share with a growth potential or with a potential for growth… …
33potential — po|ten|tial1 [ pə tenʃl ] adjective only before noun *** possible or likely in the future: The disease is a potential killer. a potential disaster potential po|ten|tial 2 [ pə tenʃl ] noun uncount *** the possibility to develop or achieve… …
34potential — /pəˈtɛnʃəl / (say puh tenshuhl) adjective 1. possible as opposed to actual. 2. capable of being or becoming; latent. 3. Grammar expressing possibility, as of a mode or modal construction, as I can go . 4. Rare potent. –noun 5. a possibility or… …
35potential — adj. & n. adj. capable of coming into being or action; latent. n. 1 the capacity for use or development; possibility (achieved its highest potential). 2 usable resources. 3 Physics the quantity determining the energy of mass in a gravitational… …
36potential */*/*/ — I UK [pəˈtenʃ(ə)l] / US adjective [only before noun] possible or likely in the future a potential disaster The disease is a potential killer. II UK [pəˈtenʃ(ə)l] / US noun [uncountable] the possibility to develop or achieve something in the… …
37potential*/ — [pəˈtenʃ(ə)l] adj I 1) possible or likely in the future a potential disaster[/ex] The disease is a potential killer.[/ex] potentially adv 2) a potentially harmful drug[/ex] II noun potential */[pəˈtenʃ(ə)l] 1) [U] the possibility to develop or… …
38potential — 1. Capable of doing or being, although not yet doing or being; possible, but not actual. 2. A state of tension in an electric source enabling it to do work under suitable conditions; in relation to electricity, p. is analogous to the temperature… …
39potential — n. 1) to develop; realize one s potential 2) a potential for * * * [pə tenʃ(ə)l] realize one s potential a potential for to develop …
40potential — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English potencial, from Late Latin potentialis, from potentia potentiality, from Latin, power, from potent , potens Date: 14th century 1. existing in possibility ; capable of development into actuality < potential… …
