Future vs Potential - What's the difference?
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The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look forward to.
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(finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.
Having to do with or occurring in the future.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to )
(physics) The or the gravitoelectric field.Novello, M. ?
(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.
(grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
(archaic) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
(physics) A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.
(physics) A is an irrotational flow.
(grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.
In grammar terms the difference between future and potential
is that future is verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense while potential is referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.As nouns the difference between future and potential
is that future is the time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced while potential is currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to.As adjectives the difference between future and potential
is that future is having to do with or occurring in the future while potential is existing in possibility, not in actuality.future
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(wikipedia future)Noun
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future , however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
Usage notes
* (finance) The one who agrees to, at a future date, sell the commodity is considered to be selling the future; the other buys it. * (finance) A non-standardized contract to buy and sell in future is called forward or forward contract.Coordinate terms
* (finance) forwardAdjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* futurism * futurist * futuristic * retro future 1000 English basic words ----potential
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Noun
(en noun)- Even from a young age it was clear that she had the potential to become a great musician.
VII Brazilian School of Cosmology and Gravitation, Rio de Janeiro, August 1993] Atlantica Séguier Frontières, 1994, p. 257 ? "In general, a system can have both translational and rotational accelerations, however. It follows from Einstein's principle of equivalence that locally—i.e., to the extent that spacetime curvature can be neglected—gravitational effects are the same as inertial effects; therefore, gravitation can be approximately described in terms of gravitoelectric and gravitomagnetic fields corresponding to translational and rotational inertia, respectively. This is the gravitational Larmor theorem, which is very useful in the post-Newtonian approximation to general relativity. The gravitomagnetic field of a massive rotating body is a measure of its absolute rotation."''Thorne, Kip S. ? [http://einstein.stanford.edu/content/sci_papers/papers/nz-Thorne_101.pdf#page=3&view=FitV Gravitomagnetism, Jets in Quasars, and the Stanford Gyroscope Experiment] From the book "Near Zero: New Frontiers of Physics" (eds. J. D. Fairbank, B. S. Deaver, Jr., C. W. F. Everitt, P. F. Michelson), W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1988, pp. 3, 4 (575, 576) ? ''"From our electrodynamical experience we can infer immediately that any rotating spherical body (e.g., the sun or the earth) will be surrounded by a radial gravitoelectric (Newtonian) field ''g''''' and a dipolar gravitomagnetic field '''''H'' . The gravitoelectric monopole moment is the body's mass M; the gravitomagnetic dipole moment is its spin angular momentum S."''Grøn, Øyvind; Hervik, Sigbjørn ? [http://books.google.com/books?id=IyJhCHAryuUC&pg=PA203&lpg=PA203&dq=%22The+gravitoelectric+field+is+the+Newtonian+part+of+the+gravitational+field,+while+the+gravitomagnetic+field+is+the+non-Newtonian+part.%22&source=bl&ots=vF8KM_toq1&sig=5rqHuClm2mU_RdeMVPP0xPth7bA&hl=en&ei=Pd8DTd-kLMLrOdKx0LsB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Einstein's General Theory of Relativity with Modern Applications in Cosmology Springer, 2007, p. 203 ? ''"In the Newtonian theory there will not be any gravitomagnetic effects; the Newtonian potential is the same irrespective of whether or not the body is rotating. Hence the gravitomagnetic field is a purely relativistic effect. The gravitoelectric field is the Newtonian part of the gravitational field, while the gravitomagnetic field is the non-Newtonian part."
Adjective
(-)- The heroic man,—and is not every man, God be thanked, a potential hero?—has to do so, in all times and circumstances. Carlyle, Thomas ? Chartism ? Chapman & Hall, 1858, p. 229
- And hath, in his effect, a voice potential Shakespeare, William ? Othello ? 1603
- From Maxwell equations (6.20) it follows that the electric field is potential: E(r) = ?''grad''?(r).''
''Soviet Physics, Uspekhi
v. 40, issues 1–6, American Institute of Physics, 1997, p. 39
- The non-viscous flow of the vacuum should be potential (irrotational). Volovik, Grigory E. ?
The Universe in a Helium Droplet
Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 60
