Definition of Potentials

1. Noun. (plural of potential) ¹

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Definition of Potentials

1. potential [n] - See also: potential

Lexicographical Neighbors of Potentials

potential
potential difference
potential divider
potential drop
potential energy
potential unit
potential vorticities
potential vorticity
potential well
potentialities
potentiality
potentialize
potentially
potentially hazardous object
potentially hazardous objects
potentials (current term)
potentiate
potentiated
potentiates
potentiating
potentiation
potentiations
potentiator
potentiators
potentilla
potentillas
potentiodynamic
potentiogalvanostat
potentiometer
potentiometers

Literary usage of Potentials

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The fibers studied in these experiments exhibited membrane potentials of 40 to ... The membrane potentials of neurons, distinguished from other cells in the ..."

2. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"These may offer an explanation for the differences between the values of resting potentials in lymphatic smooth muscles recorded by the intracellular ..."

3. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1873)
"The whole moment tending to turn the torsion-arm may then be written Electrometers for the Measurement, of potentials. 216.] In all electrometers the ..."

4. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1904)
"This is a function of the n potentials and of the variables which define the configuration of which tf> is one. Since W = Wt = Wr, Now let the n charges, ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"The measured ionization potentials are tabulated in Table I. It is evident that the trend in the ionization potentials of the halogen ligands is reflected ..."

6. A Handbook of Electrical Testing by Harry Robert Kempe (1908)
"The potentials diminish regularly from one pole of tlie battery to the other, ... These diminished potentials may be represented by, say, the lines pA (+ v) ..."

7. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"On a Portable Gold-leaf Electrometer for Low or High potentials, and its application to Measurements in Atmospheric Electricity. By CTR WILSON, MA, FRS, ..."

8. An Advanced Course of Instruction in Chemical Principles by Arthur Amos Noyes, Miles Standish Sherrill (1922)
"V. THE EQUILIBRIUM OF OXIDATION REACTIONS IN RELATION TO THE ELECTRODE-potentials 160. Derivation of the Equilibrium-Constants of Oxidation Reactions from ..."

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