potential energy

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The energy of a particle or system of particles derived from position, or condition, rather than motion. A raised weight, coiled spring, or charged battery has potential energy.

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• 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)

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• noun the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its position; stored energy