Definition of "equipotential" [e•qui•po•ten•tial]

• Having equal potential. (adjective)
• Physics Having the same electric potential at every point. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Remember how Driesch and his supporters fought for recognition that life transcends physics and chemistry, by arguing that the powers of regeneration in the sea urchin embryo were not explicable by a machinelike structure, and how the controversy has continued, along similar lines, between those who insisted that regulative “equipotential” or “organismic” integration was irreducible to any machinelike mechanism and was therefore irreducible also to the laws of inanimate nature."
• "In the case of a uniformly conducting soil, the current disperses radially, generating circular equipotential lines."
• "The results were shown in such terms as diagrams and equations of equipotential surfaces, familiar to a space captain."