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potential energy

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.81 in modern English

Syllables
po-ten-tial en-er-gy
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The energy possessed by an object because of its position (in a gravitational or electric field), or its condition (as a stretched or compressed spring, as a chemical reactant, or by having rest mass).

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

potential energies (plural)

Phrases

kinetic energy

Frequently Paired Words

kinetic energy E=mc²

Synonyms

p.e.

Questions

What does potential energy mean?
The energy possessed by an object because of its position (in a gravitational or electric field), or its condition (as a stretched or compressed spring, as a chemical reactant, or by having rest mass).

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