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    Potency is how strong something's effect is. A medicine with high potency works with a small dose; one with low potency needs more to do the same job. People also talk about the potency of a poison, an alcoholic drink, an argument (how convincing it is), or — in more formal or medical talk — a man's sexual ability.

    效力、藥效強度

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組成From Latin 'potentia,' meaning power or strength, plus the ending '-cy,' which turns a quality into a noun (as in 'accuracy' or 'urgency').

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  • potentsame Latin root 'potens/potentia,' power
  • potentialsame root, describing power that hasn't been used yet

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

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potencynoun/ˈpəʊtənsi/

  • 1

    Power, authority.

    • I would to heauen I had your potencie, And you were Isabell: should it then be thus? No: I would tell what 'twere to be a Iudge, and what a prisoner.
    • Beset on either hand by potencies greater than himself, he becomes the battle-ground of immortals.
  • 2

    The ability or capacity to perform something

  • 3

    The ability or capacity to perform something

    • Pliny the Elder states that, to increase sexual potency, the right testis of an ass should be worn in a bracelet.
  • 4

    Concentration; strength

  • 5

    Potentiality, ability, capacity.

  • 6

    datedmathematicssciencesCardinality.

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