potentials
- 1Plural of potential.
The report compared the growth potentials of several emerging markets.
Engineers recorded the electric potentials at multiple points along the wire.
Note
A plural that behaves differently across the noun's meanings. For untapped ability, potential often works as a mass noun (she has real potential), so the plural mostly appears when distinct capacities are compared, as in growth potentials. In physics the count use is routine: potentials are measured point by point, and chemists list standard reduction potentials. The adjective takes no plural, so potentials is always the noun.
potentials is a form of potential
potential, noun: An ability that exists but has not yet been developed or used. Full entry
- Forms
- potentialpotentials plural
- Spelling
- potential → potentials: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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