potential

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/pəˈtɛnʃəl/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/pəˈtɛnʃəl/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(pə ten′shəl)

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En esta página: potential, electric potential

WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
potential adj (possible)potencial adj mf
 The inventor looked for potential investors in his idea.
 El inventor buscaba inversores potenciales para su idea.
potential adj (capable of being)potencial adj mf
  en potencia loc adj
 To a sculptor, a lump of stone is a potential statue.
 Para un escultor, un bloque de piedra es una estatua potencial.
 Para un escultor, un bloque de piedra es una estatua en potencia.
potential n (possibility)posibilidad nf
  probabilidad nf
 The potential for people to cheat the benefits system will always exist.
 Hay una gran posibilidad de lluvia hoy.
 Hay una alta probabilidad de lluvia para hoy.
potential n (latent capability)potencial nm
 His early stories showed he had great potential as a writer.
 Sus primeras historias mostraban que tenía un gran potencial como escritor.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Principal Translations
InglésEspañol
electric potential,
potential n		 (electricity) (electricidad)potencial eléctrico nm + adj
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Compound Forms:
potential | electric potential
InglésEspañol
action potential (electronics)potencial de acción nm + loc adj
full potential n (what is possible)a tope de su capacidad expr
  todo su potencial expr
growth potential n (capability of expanding)potencial de crecimiento nm
 The stock market favors companies with higher growth potential.
 ⓘEsta oración no es una traducción de la original. Vista de ese modo, la empresa tiene un gran potencial de crecimiento, Señor Juárez, por lo que le concedemos el crédito que nos ha solicitado.
potential difference (electronics) (electrónica)diferencia de potencial loc nom f
  (electrónica)tensión eléctrica loc nom f
potential energy (physics) (física)energía potencial loc nom f
vector potential n (mathematics: vector field)potencial vectorial loc nom m
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'potential' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
In the English description:
amount at risk - brownfield - capability - developing threat - diamond in the rough - early warning system - employee screening - every - fire hazard - fresh meat - future prospects - have the makings of - impact assessment - lead - material - natural hazard - negative - only hope - play hard to get - possibility - possible - recessionary gap - research proposal - risk bearing - risk-manage - sales lead - security risk - self-realization - speculative - take the risk - talent - there are plenty more fish in the sea - underutilization - underutilize - unmarketable - view - volatility - waste your talent
Spanish:
en potencia - futurible - potencial - con futuro - conflictividad - energía potencial - lucro cesante - potencial humano - precandidato

Collocations: [enormous, huge, great, considerable] potential (to), a potential [cure, breakthrough, discovery], the [child, boy, girl, student] has potential (to), more...

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