potential energy

English

Noun

potential energy (countable and uncountable, plural potential energies)

1. 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).

Translations

energy possessed by an object because of its position

• Albanian: energjia potenciale f
• Arabic: طاقة وضع
• Armenian: պոտենցիալ էներգիա (hy) (potencʻial ēnergia)
• Asturian: enerxía potencial f
• Azerbaijani: potensial enerji
• Basque: energia potentzial
• Belarusian: патэнцыяльная энергія (patencyjalʹnaja enjerhija)
• Bulgarian: потенциална енергия f (potencialna energija)
• Catalan: energia potencial f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勢能／势能 (zh) (shìnéng), 位能 (zh) (wèinéng)

• Chuvash: потенциалла энерги (pot̬entsialla energi)
• Czech: potenciální energie f
• Danish: potentiel energi c
• Dutch: potentiële energie f
• Esperanto: potenciala energio
• Estonian: potentsiaalne energia
• Finnish: potentiaalienergia (fi)
• French: énergie potentielle (fr) f
• Galician: enerxía potencial f
• Georgian: პოტენციური ენერგია (ṗoṭenciuri energia)
• German: potentielle Energie f, Lageenergie f
• Greek: δυναμική ενέργεια f (dynamikí enérgeia)
• Hebrew: אנרגיה פוטנציאלית (he)
• Hindi: स्थितिज ऊर्जा f (sthitij ūrjā)
• Hungarian: potenciális energia
• Icelandic: stöðuorka
• Indonesian: energi potensial (id)
• Irish: fuinneamh poitéinsiúil m
• Italian: energia potenziale (it) f
• Japanese: 位置エネルギー (ja) (ichi enerugī)
• Kazakh: потенциалдық энергия (potensialdyq énergiä)
• Korean: 위치 에너지 (ko) (wichi eneoji)
• Latin: energīa potentiālis f (New Latin)
• Latvian: potenciālā enerģija f
• Lithuanian: potencinė energija f
• Macedonian: потенцијална енергија f (potencijalna energija)
• Malay: tenaga keupayaan (ms)
• Malayalam: സ്ഥിതികോർജ്ജം (sthitikōṟjjaṁ)
• Maori: pūngao moe
• Marathi: स्थितीज ऊर्जा (sthitīj ūrjā)
• Norwegian: potensiell energi m
• Occitan: energia potenciala f
• Persian: انرژی پتانسیل (fa)
• Polish: energia potencjalna f
• Portuguese: energia potencial (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਪੁਟੈਂਸ਼ਲ ਊਰਜਾ (puṭaĩśal ūrajā)
• Romanian: energie potențială (ro) f
• Russian: потенциа́льная эне́ргия (ru) f (potɛnciálʹnaja enɛ́rgija)
• Serbo-Croatian: potencijalna energija f, потенцијална енергија f
• Slovak: potenciálna energia f
• Slovene: potencialna energija f
• Spanish: energía potencial f
• Swedish: potentiell energi (sv) c, lägesenergi (sv) c
• Tagalog: biniting kusog
• Telugu: స్థితిశక్తి (sthitiśakti)
• Thai: พลังงานศักย์ (pá-lang-ngaan-sàk)
• Turkish: potansiyel enerji
• Ukrainian: потенціальна енергія f (potencialʹna enerhija)
• Uzbek: potensial energiya
• Vietnamese: thế năng (vi)
• Welsh: egni potensial

See also

• kinetic energy
• E=mc²