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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as prepotent.
  • noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biology The depolarization of a cell membrane between action potentials
  • noun mathematics A vector superfield in supersymmetry theory

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