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The flattering lie energy tells you before it agrees to do any actual work.
means The latent capacity to develop, achieve, or become something — what could happen rather than what has.
from From Latin potentia, 'power, might,' rooted in posse, 'to be able' (also the ancestor of 'potent,' 'possible,' and 'puissant'). Through Late Latin potentialis it slipped into English in the late medieval period, first as a logician's and philosopher's term for the 'potential' as opposed to the 'actual' — Aristotle's distinction between an acorn's promise and an oak's reality, dressed in Latin clothing.
- physics origin
- Stored energy waiting, doing absolutely nothing yet
- compliment trap
- Praise for who you aren't quite yet
- latin root
- Potentia means power, capability, possibility
- never spent
- Worthless until kinetic action cashes it in
- coach favorite
- What scouts say before draft regrets begin
latent heat of fusion — energy released when ice melts: 334 joules per gram at 0°c
gravitational potential energy — energy stored in an object 100 meters above ground: mgh calculation
resting membrane potential — electrical voltage across neuron cell membrane: -70 millivolts