Opportunity vs. Potential
Opportunitynoun
A chance for advancement, progress or profit.
Opportunitynoun
A favorable circumstance or occasion.
Opportunitynoun
opportuneness
Opportunitynoun
Fit or convenient time or situation; a time or place permitting or favorable for the execution of a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.
Opportunitynoun
Convenience of situation; fitness.
Opportunitynoun
Importunity; earnestness.
Opportunitynoun
a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances;
Opportunitynoun
a time or set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something
Opportunitynoun
a chance for employment or promotion
Potentialnoun
Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to)
Potentialnoun
(physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
Potentialnoun
(physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
Potentialnoun
(grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
Potentialadjective
Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
Potentialadjective
Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
Potentialnoun
Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
Potentialnoun
In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coördinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; - also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.
Potentialnoun
The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.
Potentialnoun
the inherent capacity for coming into being
Potentialnoun
the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
Potentialadjective
existing in possibility;
Potentialadjective
expected to become or be; in prospect;
Potential
Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability. The term is used in a wide variety of fields, from physics to the social sciences to indicate things that are in a state where they are able to change in ways ranging from the simple release of energy by objects to the realization of abilities in people.
