potential unit

Questions about potential unit

What does potential unit mean?

potential unit means "a measure of the potential energy of a unit charge at a given point in a circuit relative to a reference point (ground)".

Is potential unit a common word?

potential unit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.