potentially
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
potential/pəˈtenʃl/
▶adjective having the capacity to develop into something in the future. ▶noun
- 1 latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness.
- 2 (often potential for/to do something) the possibility of something happening or of someone doing something in the future.
- 3 Physics the quantity determining the energy of mass in a gravitational field or of charge in an electric field.
– derivatives
potentiality noun,
potentialize (or potentialise) verb,
potentially adverb.
potentiality noun,
potentialize (or potentialise) verb,
potentially adverb.
– origin ME: from late L. potentialis, from potentia ‘power’.
'potentially' also found in these Oxford entries:
antioxidant
- Australoid
- Caucasian
- computer dating
- death trap
- dicey
- Draize test
- dynamite
- emergency
- false move
- historic
- indeterminate
- insulin shock
- kamikaze
- life-threatening
- Mongoloid
- Negroid
- oriental
- potential
- powder keg
- rotgut
- siren
- squeeze
- unholy

