geopotential
geopotential noun: the work that must be done at a given altitude in raising a unit mass from sea level to that altitude against the earth's gravitational field.
Noun
geopotential (plural geopotentials)
- The work that must be done at a given altitude in raising a unit mass from sea level to that altitude against the earth's gravitational field.
- It might sound puzzling that the ageostrophic geopotential (or the ageostrophic pressure in z-coordinate) has no impact on the evolution of the vorticity of a quasi-geostrophic disturbance and yet it affects the perturbation kinetic energetics (not globally but locally).2004, Zhu Xun, Li Xiaofan, Cai Ming, Observation, Theory And Modeling Of Atmospheric Variability, →ISBN, page 13
Forms of geopotential
| plural | geopotentials |
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Origin of geopotential
From geo- + potential.
Words formed from geopotential
Phrases with geopotential
Questions about geopotential
- What does geopotential mean?
- Geopotential means the work that must be done at a given altitude in raising a unit mass from sea level to that altitude against the earth's gravitational field.
- What part of speech is geopotential?
- Geopotential is a noun.
- What is the plural of geopotential?
- The plural of geopotential is geopotentials.
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