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potential - technical definition
- The work required to bring a unit of positive electric charge from a reference point (as at infinity) to a specified point in an electric field.
- Something that could happen but has not happened yet. Someone who could do something but has yet to do it, as in "He has a lot of potential." Some people never advance beyond the potential.
- Maybe. See also negative, null, and positive.
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