ABILITY vs POTENTIAL: NOUN
- The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.
- Abilities, Talents, Parts, etc. (see genius), gifts, faculty, aptitude, accomplishments.
- Synonyms Ability, Capacity, power, strength, skill, dexterity; faculty, capability, qualification, efficiency. Ability denotes active power or power to perform, and is used with regard to power of any kind. Capacity conveys the idea of receptiveness, of the possession of resources; it is potential rather than actual, and may be no more than undeveloped ability. Ability is manifested in action, while capacity does not imply action, as when we speak of a capacity for virtue. Capacity is the gift of nature; ability is partly the result of education or opportunity.
- The condition of being able to pay or to meet pecuniary obligations; possession of means: called distinctively financial or pecuniary ability.
- Plural In a concrete sense, talents; mental gifts or endowments.
- The state or condition of being able; power or capacity to do or act in any relation; competence in any occupation or field of action, from the possession of capacity, skill, means, or other qualification.
- See -able, -bility, -ibility.
- The quality of being suitable for or receptive to a specified treatment.
- A skill, talent, or capacity.
- The quality of being able to do something, especially the physical, mental, financial, or legal power to accomplish something.
- Possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
- That which is within one's power to do; best endeavor.
- The quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
- The difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
- The inherent capacity for coming into being
- The inherent ability or capacity for growth, development, or future success.
- The possibility that something might happen or result from given conditions.
- In electricity, an incorrect abbreviation of potential difference, or electric pressure.
- A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
- Anything that may be possible; a possibility.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A scalar quantity distributed through space in such a way that its slope represents a given vector quantity distributed through space.
- In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coördinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.
- The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.
- Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to)
- The work (energy) required to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- A potential verb form.
ABILITY vs POTENTIAL: ADJECTIVE
- N/A
- A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.
- Existing in possibility
- Of, relating to, or being a verbal construction with auxiliaries such as may or can; for example, it may snow.
- Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
- Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
- See under Cautery.
- See the Note under Energy.
- That form of the verb which is used to express possibility, liberty, power, will, obligation, or necessity, by the use of may, can, must, might, could, would, or should; as, I may go; he can write.
- Capable of being but not yet in existence; latent or undeveloped.
- A potential flow is an irrotational flow.
- Expected to become or be; in prospect
ABILITY vs POTENTIAL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- N/A
- 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 participle
- Expected to become or be
- In prospect
ABILITY vs POTENTIAL: RELATED WORDS
- Prowess, Readiness, Strength, Flexibility, Dexterity, Responsiveness, Effectiveness, Capabilities, Can, Propensity, Capability, Able, Willingness, Inability, Power
- Risks, Prospect, Likelihood, Future, Prospects, Opportunities, Possibility, Possibilities, Expected, Potency, Likely, Latent, Potentiality, Possible, Prospective
ABILITY vs POTENTIAL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Opportunity, Availability, Potential, Competence, Skill, Prowess, Strength, Dexterity, Effectiveness, Capabilities, Can, Propensity, Capability, Able, Inability
- Opportunity, Risks, Prospect, Likelihood, Future, Prospects, Opportunities, Possibility, Possibilities, Expected, Likely, Latent, Potentiality, Possible, Prospective
ABILITY vs POTENTIAL: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- You already have the Tempest Rocket Launcher ability!
- Harry Houdini for his ability to survive falls.
- Intuit or ability to communicate with company personnel.
- Add the ability to automatically switch database connections.
- One reason is the ability to conduct audits.
- The ability to work independently is just as important as the ability to work well with a team.
- Our Credit Agreements restrict our ability and the ability of our subsidiaries to engage in some business and financial transactions.
- Learners will have fluency in the ability to converse with others, much more than the ability to read, write, or comprehend oral language.
- The entrance test aims at measuring the aptitude of the participants through verbal ability, numerical ability and logical reasoning.
- The ability to summon a mount does not confer and ability to ride it.
- Potential candidates create an online Express Entry profile.
- These circumstances are common to many potential extraditees.
- Any potential vulnerability can lead to a hack.
- AS framework when the equilibrium is substantially below potential GDP and relatively small when the equilibrium is near potential GDP.
- Potential to claim ongoing interest expenses or pay your interest up front, and the potential to reduce income liabilities through franking credits.
- In addition, significant infrastructure has been upgraded to provide for a potential indoor riding ring or for a potential estate lot.
- You are excited about prospecting to potential customers, and are capable of independently identifying high potential markets Customers for Stripe.
- You are excited about prospecting to potential customers, and are capable of independently identifying high potential Customers for Stripe.
- This unconditioned and sometimes disturbing potential, unbounded by social norms, is nevertheless a potential which law and justice cannot overlook or override.
- What is the potential effect on other potential clients?
ABILITY vs POTENTIAL: QUESTIONS
- How does ability draft affect Bane's ability draft?
- How does Vladimir's ability power and ability power work?
- Can a firearm have both a special ability and Lucky ability?
- Can I upgrade from Ability Office standard to ability office professional?
- Should the undying nature ability be a first level ability?
- What does the potion ability ability to breathe underwater do?
- Why does enhance ability affect only ability checks?
- What is arithmetic ability/quantitative aptitude/numerical ability?
- Does musical ability predict language ability in young children?
- Which impairment/disability factors predict ability of walking ability?
- How is spring potential energy related to elastic potential energy?
- Why is the equilibrium potential for K + called the reversal potential?
- Why does water always flow from high potential to low potential?
- Do you have the potential to be a high potential leader?
- What causes the change in membrane potential during action potential?
- Why do electrons move from high potential to low potential?
- How does depolarization change the potential potential of a neuron?
- How does membrane potential change during action potential?
- How is resting potential and action potential related?
- What is the potential of infinity in electric potential?