potential energy
 勢能


 potential energy 名詞
 勢能,位能,電位能


 Po·ten·tial a.
 1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. [Obs.] “And hath in his effect a voice potential.”
 2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. “A potential hero.”
    Potential existence means merely that the thing may be at ome time; actual existence, that it now is.   --Sir W. Hamilton.
 Potential cautery. See under Cautery.
 Potential energy. Mech. See the Note under Energy.
 Potential mood, or Potential mode Gram., that form of the verb which is used to express possibility, liberty, power, will, obligation, or necessity, by the use of may, can, must, might, could, would, or should; as, I may go; he can write.


 potential energy
      n : the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its
          position; stored energy [syn: P.E.]