Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
electrical potential Variant:
or electric potential Function:
noun : the potential energy of a unit positive charge at a point in anelectric field that is reckoned as the work which would be required to move the charge to its location in the electric field from an arbitrary point having zero potential (as one at infinite distancefrom all electric charges) and that is roughly analogous to the potential energy at a given elevation in a gravitational field
