Word.ws English Dictionary

overpotentials

overpotentials is the plural of overpotential.

Meaning of overpotential

Noun

overpotential (plural overpotentials)

  1. The difference between the electric potential of an electrode or cell under the passage of a current and the thermodynamic value of the electrode or cell potential in the absence of electrolysis.
    • One of the factors that limits their development and use is that known anode and cathode electrocatalysts produce useful current densities only at high overpotentials.1998 June 12, Erik Reddington et al., “Combinatorial Electrochemistry: A Highly Parallel, Optical Screening Method for Discovery of Better Electrocatalysts”, in Science, volume 280, number 5370...
    Synonyms:
    overvoltage

Questions about overpotentials

What is overpotentials the plural of?
Overpotentials is the plural of overpotential.

Words near overpotentials in the dictionary

  1. overposting
  2. overposts
  3. overpot
  4. overpotent
  5. overpotential
  6. overpotentials
  7. overpots
  8. overpotted
  9. overpotting
  10. overpour
  11. overpoured

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overpotentials (page history and authors); overpotential (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “overpotentials.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overpotentials. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.