Phrase Hound found 46 phrases and 36 compound words that contain potential. The most common are listed below. Open potential in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 46
- potential energyThe energy possessed by an object because of its position (in a gravitational or electric field), or its condition (as a stretched or compressed spring, as a chemical reactant, or by having rest mass).
- action potentialA short-term change in the electrical potential that travels along a cell such as a nerve or muscle fiber.
- membrane potentialThe difference in electrical potential across the enclosing membrane of a cell
- potential differencethe difference in potential energy between two points in an electric field; the difference in charge between two points in an electrical circuit; voltage
- Growth potential
- electric potentialThe potential energy per unit charge at a point in a static electric field.
- High Potential
- potential wellthe region surrounding a local minimum of potential energy, especially if the potential has a constant value in an interval and a higher (finite or infinite) value outside of it
- normal potentialThe electrode potential with reference to that of a normal hydrogen electrode
- potential theoryThe study of harmonic functions.
- water potentialThe potential energy of water per unit volume.
- potential temperatureThe temperature a parcel of air would have if brought adiabatically to a standard reference pressure
- threshold potentialThe critical level to which a membrane potential must be depolarized to initiate an action potential.
- injury potentialthe electric potential arising in a muscle or nerve from trauma injury
- potential moodThe grammatical mood expressing possibility and potential.
- event-related potentialThe measurable brain response to a specific sensory, cognitive, or motor event.
- human potential movementinitiative encapsulating self-help groups, encounter groups and sensitivity training in order to attempt to increase human potential
- after-potentialAlternative spelling of afterpotential: A small, transitory electrical potential that follows, and is dependent upon the main potential produced when a nerve is stimulated; seen as a small positive or negative spike on an oscillograph …
- velocity potentialA scalar potential function relating to the flow’s velocity distribution, defined as ϕ=∇⃑V.
- evoked potentialAn electrical potential recorded from a human or animal following presentation of a stimulus, as distinct from spontaneous potentials as detected by electroencephalograms or electromyograms.
- LJ potentialLennard-Jones potential
- resting potentialThe nearly latent membrane potential of inactive cells.
- decomposition potentialIn electrolysis, the electrode potential at which current begins to increase appreciably, and electrolysis occurs.
- zeta potentialelectrokinetic potential at the slipping plane, the interface which separates mobile fluid from fluid that remains attached to the surface.
- Morse potentialA simple interatomic interaction model for the potential energy of a diatomic molecule.
Compound words 36
- superpotentialOne of the parameters of supersymmetry.
- biopotentialA biologically- or biochemically-generated potential (voltage)
- oligopotentialThe capacity of a stem cell to differentiate into a limited number of cell types within a specific lineage, as distinct from other types of stem cells like pluripotent or multipotent cells.
- immunopotentialHaving the potential to cause an immune response.
- potentializeTo make or give something potential
- eigenpotentialAny potential whose value is based on an eigenfunction
- electropotentialelectrode potential
- hydropotentialThe potential for generation of hydroelectric power.
- interpotentialBetween successive discharges of action potential
- isopotentialequipotential