Potent; powerful; mighty.Possible, as opposed to actual; capable of being or becoming; capable of coming into full being or manifestation.In physics, existing in a positional form, not as motion: especially in the phrase potential energy.In grammar, expressing power or possibility: as, the potential mode; potential forms.See phrase under participlen. Anything that may be possible; a possibility.n. In dynamics: The sum of the products of all the pairs of masses of a system, each product divided by the distance between the pair.n. More generally, the line-integral of the attractions of a conservative system from a fixed configuration to its actual configuration; the work that would be done by a system of attracting and repelling masses (obeying the law of energy) in moving from situations infinitely remote from one another (or from any other fixed situations) to their actual situation.n. In electrostatics, at any point near or within an electrified body, the quantity of work necessary to bring a unit of positive electricity from an infinite distance to that point, the given distribution of electricity remaining unaltered. See equipotential.n. A scalar quantity distributed through space in such a way that its slope represents a given vector quantity distributed through space.n. In electricity, an incorrect abbreviation of potential difference, or electric pressure.