potency
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈpoʊtənsi/
- Specialized
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potencia
- Between 1993 and 2008, the potency of cannabis confiscated by law enforcement authorities grew from 3.4 to 8.8 percent.
- relative potency
- increase potency
- lose potency
This is the Origins high potency Nitamins skin refining oil.
- This is the Origins high potency Nitamins skin refining oil.
- But berberine and metformin are very high potency glucose disposal agents.
- Eventually it really does lose its potency.
- It has become so overused that it's losing its its descriptive potency.
- So the cries against the degenerate leftists have kind of lost their potency.
- Cthulhu, as he says, slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave raising strokes of cosmic potency.
- Then, bolder than the storied Cyclops, Great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water, began to pursue with vast wave raising strokes of cosmic potency.
- It's about the same potency as heroin is hydromorphone.
- But they do so with thousandfold greater potency.
- So it's, it's a very useful drug, but it is by its potency, it is highly, highly addictive.
- So no, it's going to forever be a source, will it be, and have potency for the entire world to celebrate?
- As your popularity increases, the the potency of, of of attacks as a source of clicks increases.
Examples
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The relative potency provided by different models is not necessarily the same.
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OK, the next thing I have on my excited list is just overall the space of fasting and the potency of fasting.
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Anyway, all you have to know is that... it's twice the potency so I want double the price.
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But you have to wait 15 minutes for full potency.
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This mission is about the cure, not that other treatment to lose its potency over time.
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Relative potency is simply a metric for comparing the potency of two materials.
Academic text (2013) -
Yet it must also recognize the potency of those visions and accommodate them to a more human scale.
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Similarly, the potency of ethanol, or ABV, in a beverage greatly affects the number of standard drinks computed.
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You need a high-potency, high-mineral, mega-amino... anabolic body-building supplement.
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The potency of the medicine ensured that patients experienced rapid recovery from their ailments.
Synonyms
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3.5
The ability to make something work as planned
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2.8
How much effect a medicine, liquid, or signal has
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7.4
The ability to produce the wanted result
Ability to produce the wanted result
Ability to produce the wanted result
Antonyms
How Effective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Potency comes from the Latin potentia meaning 'power', just like the common word potent which means 'strong'. So, in medicine or chemistry, potency means how 'strong' or effective a substance is.