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Translate potential from English to French

Summary

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potential:
- latent; de manière latente
- capacité; potentiel
Wiktionary:
- potential → possibilité, potentiel
- potential → potentiel, éventuel
- potential → possible, potentiel

English

Detailed Translations for potential from English to French

potential:

potential adj

potential (latent)
latent; de manière latente
- latent adj
- de manière latente adj

potential [the ~] nomen

the potential (capacity)
la capacité; le potentiel
- capacité [la ~] nomen
- potentiel [le ~] nomen

Translation Matrix for potential:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
capacité	capacity; potential	Capacity; ability; ability to achieve; adroitness; authority; business sense; capability; capacity; cargo hold; cargo space; carrying capacity; competence; dexterity; expertise; force; handiness; knack; loading capacity; power; quality; skill; stowage; strength; tonnage; volume
potentiel	capacity; potential
-	electric potential; potency; potential difference; potential drop; potentiality; voltage
Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	likely; possible
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
de manière latente	latent; potential
latent	latent; potential	if necessary; possible; possibly
potentiel		if necessary; possible; possibly

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 → possibilité; potentiel

adjective

existing in possibility
- potential → potentiel

potential

adjective

Qui est subordonné à quelque événement incertain.
- éventuel → contingent; possible; potential; prospective

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• potential	→ possible	↔ möglich — wahrscheinlich, aber nicht gesichert, denkbar
• potential	→ potentiel	↔ potenziell — nach Möglichkeit

Related Translations for potential

magnifying potential

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