Usually means: Ability to produce a desired effect.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. potency: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. potency: Merriam-Webster
  3. potency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. potency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. potency: Collins English Dictionary
  6. potency: Vocabulary.com
  7. Potency, potency: Wordnik
  8. potency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. potency: Wiktionary
  10. potency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. potency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. potency: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. potency: Dictionary.com
  14. potency: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Potency (pharmacology), Potency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Potency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. potency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. potency: Rhymezone
  19. Potency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. potency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. potency: FreeDictionary.org
  22. potency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. potency: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -potency: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. potency: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. potency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. potency: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Potency: Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry
  5. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  7. potency: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Potency: Medicinal Chemistry

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Power, authority.
noun:  The ability or capacity to perform something
noun:  (usually of men) Sexual virility: the ability to become erect or achieve orgasm.
noun:  (of alcoholic drinks, of drugs) Concentration; strength
noun:  Potentiality, ability, capacity.
noun:  (mathematics, dated) Cardinality.

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