English-Spanish translations for potential

• potencial
  Tiene un gran potencial en este campo. Its potential in this area is enormous.
  También están el potencial energético y el relativo al acceso al agua y a los alimentos. Energy potential, potential in access to water and to food.
  Se trata de un mercado potencial enorme. That is a huge potential market.

Definition of potential

• Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being ''to''
• The wikipedia:gravitational potential|gravitational potential: the radial component of a gravitational field, also known as the wikipedia:Newtonian potential|Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field
• A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable
• Existing in possibility, not in actuality
• Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
• A potential field is an irrotational field
• A wikipedia:potential flow|potential flow is an irrotational flow
• Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable

Examples

• Even from a young age it was clear that she had the potential to become a great musician

Related words

• potentially
• potentiality
• bipotential
• nonpotential
• biopotential
• potentialization
• potentialité
• potential energy
• potential difference