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1. Existing in possibility
   "a potential problem"
   - possible
    
2. Expected to become or be; in prospect
   "potential clients"
   - likely

1. The inherent capacity for coming into being
   - potentiality, potency
    
2. The difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
   - electric potential, potential difference, potential drop, voltage

Derived forms: potentials

See also: latent, potentially, prospective

Type of: electrical phenomenon, possibility, possibleness

Antonym: actual

Encyclopedia: Potential