prepotential

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Same as prepotent.
2. n. A quantity similar to a potential and only differing therefrom in belonging to a force varying inversely as a power of the distance whose index is not one less than the number of dimensions of the space considered.

Wiktionary

1. n. biology The depolarization of a cell membrane between action potentials
2. n. mathematics A vector superfield in supersymmetry theory