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potential:
- potentiell; latent
- Kapazität; Potential; Fähigkeit; Vermögen; Leistungsvermögen; Leistung; Leistungsfähigkeit; Energie
Wiktionary:
- potential → Potential, Potenzial
- potential → möglich, potenziell, potentiell
- potential → möglich, etwaig, eventuell, allfällig

English

Detailed Translations for potential from English to German

potential:

potential adj

potential (latent)
potentiell; latent
- potentiell adj
- latent adj

potential [the ~] noun

the potential (capacity)
die Kapazität; Potential; die Fähigkeit; Vermögen; Leistungsvermögen; die Leistung; die Leistungsfähigkeit; die Energie
- Kapazität [die ~] noun
- Potential [das ~] noun
- Fähigkeit [die ~] noun
- Vermögen [das ~] noun
- Leistungsvermögen [das ~] noun
- Leistung [die ~] noun
- Leistungsfähigkeit [die ~] noun
- Energie [die ~] noun

Translation Matrix for potential:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
Energie	capacity; potential	ability; activity; capacity; chances; current; drive; efficacy; electric current; energy; function; functionality; gin; gusto; impetus; jenever; momentum; opportunities; power; soul; spirit; spunk; strength; thoroughness; vigor; vigour; will-power; zest
Fähigkeit	capacity; potential	ability; aptitude; beauty; capability; capacity; comeliness; gift; good looks; handsomeness; ingenuity; natural ability; neatness; power; quality; resilience; skill; stamina; talent
Kapazität	capacity; potential	Capacity; ability; aptitude; authorities; capability; capacity; establishment; gift; horse-power; ingenuity; natural ability; power; quality; talent
Leistung	capacity; potential	ability; achievement; action; aptitude; capacity; compensation; feat; gift; heroic deed; hobby; ingenuity; labour performance; natural ability; pastime; pay-off; payment; performance; power; stunt; talent; tour de force
Leistungsfähigkeit	capacity; potential	ability; ability to achieve; activity; aptitude; capability; capacity; capacity for work; drive; energy; function; functionality; gift; gin; impetus; ingenuity; jenever; momentum; natural ability; physical disposition; power; productivity; quality; soul; spirit; spunk; strength; talent; thoroughness; validity; work force
Leistungsvermögen	capacity; potential	ability; ability to achieve; aptitude; capacity; carrying capacity; gift; ingenuity; loading capacity; natural ability; power; talent
Potential	capacity; potential	ability; aptitude; capacity; gift; ingenuity; natural ability; talent
Vermögen	capacity; potential	ability; capability; capacity; capacity for work; capital; capital sum; energy; finances; financial means; fortune; intensity; large sum of money; luck; means; power; productivity; quality; strength; vigor; vigour; wealth; windfall; work force
-	electric potential; potency; potential difference; potential drop; potentiality; voltage
Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	likely; possible
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
latent	latent; potential
potentiell	latent; potential

Related Words for "potential":

potentials, potentially

Synonyms for "potential":

possible; latent
expected; likely; prospective
potentiality; potency; possibility; possibleness
electric potential; potential difference; potential drop; voltage; electrical phenomenon

Antonyms for "potential":

actual

Related Definitions for "potential":

existing in possibility¹
- a potential problem¹
expected to become or be; in prospect¹
- potential clients¹
the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts¹
the inherent capacity for coming into being¹

Wiktionary Translations for potential:

potential

noun

currently unrealized ability
- potential → Potential
energy of a unit electrical charge
- potential → Potential

adjective

existing in possibility
- potential → möglich; potenziell; potentiell

potential

adjective

nach Möglichkeit
- potenziell → potential; potentially

wahrscheinlich, aber nicht gesichert, denkbar
- möglich → potential

noun

Entwicklungsmöglichkeit, Gesamtheit der noch nicht ausgeschöpften Möglichkeiten, Mittel, Energie, Fähigkeit
- Potenzial → potential

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• potential	→ etwaig; eventuell; allfällig	↔ éventuel — Qui est subordonné à quelque événement incertain.

Related Translations for potential

magnifying potential

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