different between attainment vs potential
attainment
English
Etymology
From attain +? -ment; compare Old French ataignement.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??te?nm?nt/
Noun
attainment (countable and uncountable, plural attainments)
- The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion or effort.
- That which is attained, or obtained by exertion; acquisition; acquirement.
Translations
References
- attainment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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potential
English
Etymology
From Late Latin potentialis, from Latin potentia (“power”), from potens (“powerful”); synchronically analysable as potent +? -ial.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /p??t?n??l/
- (US) IPA(key): /po(?)?t?n??l/
- Hyphenation: po?ten?tial
Noun
potential (countable and uncountable, plural potentials)
- Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to)
- (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- (physics) 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.
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
Synonyms
- noumenon
- spirit
Antonyms
- matter
- phenomenon
Related terms
- potence
- potency
- potent
- potentate
- potentiality
Translations
Adjective
potential (not comparable)
- Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
- Synonyms: noumenal, spiritual, virtual
- Antonyms: actual, phenomenal, real
- (archaic) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result
- Synonyms: efficacious, influential
- (physics) A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.
- (physics) A potential flow is an irrotational flow.
- (grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.
Translations
Further reading
- potential in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- potential in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Potential on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Potential (physics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Swedish
Noun
potential c
- potential
Declension
Related terms
- potens
- potentialvandring
- potentiell
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