Plural of potential
regular plural
The plural of potential is potentials.
Forms of potential
| Singular | potential /pəˈtɛnʃəl/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | potentials |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Potentials in a sentence
- With some technical improvement, I could see how the process of imitating my work would soon become fast and streamlined, and the many dark potentials bubbled to the forefront of my mind.2022 December 31, Sarah Andersen, “The Alt-Right Manipulated My Comic. Then A.I. Claimed It.”, in The New York Times
- Objective assessment is good, but defeatism will reduce our potentials even when the prospects for victory have never been nearer.From the entry defeatism
- A myoelectric prosthesis uses EMG signals or potentials from voluntarily contracted muscles within a person's residual limb on the surface of the skin to control the movements of the prosthesis.From the entry myoelectric
- The multineural recordings did not allow unambiguous assignment of action potentials to individual neurons.2015 October 15, “Insects Can Count: Sensory Basis of Host Discrimination in Parasitoid Wasps Revealed”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry multineural
- The second is that it has potentials for information exploration, because the displayed network is navigatable.1998, Flexible Query Answering Systems, page 83. From the entry navigatable
Meaning of potential
- noun A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
- noun The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- noun The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
Questions about the plural of potential
- What is the plural of potential?
- The plural of potential is potentials.
- Is potential countable?
- Potential is a countable and uncountable noun.
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