potential source

collocation in English

meaningsofpotentialandsource

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potential
adjective[before noun]
uk
/pəˈten.ʃəl/
us
/poʊˈten.ʃəl/
possible when the necessary ...
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source
noun[C]
uk
/sɔːs/
us
/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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(Definition ofpotentialandsourcefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The pig is increasingly being focused on as apotentialsourceof xenotransplanted organs.
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Australian wild-life acts as an important reservoir for the parasite, providing a constantpotentialsourceof infection for humans and domestic animals.
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Anotherpotentialsourceof luminance-contrast contamination might have arisen due to the nonuniform distribution of macular pigment within the central macular region.
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In light of these findings, reptile meat should not be excluded as apotentialsourceof human trichinellosis.
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When thepotentialsourcewas identified as the raw milk in late 2002, the family started to use retail milk.
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Anotherpotentialsourceof aerosol was a car wash, in which cold water was used and recycled car wash water samples failed to yield legionella.
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In a process drift failure, the diagnosis of eachpotentialsourcecomponent will be more gradual.
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Anotherpotentialsourceof error may relate to the spatial configuration of the gratings.
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Firstly, public swimming pools are an importantpotentialsourceof large numbers of cryptosporidiosis cases.
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In addition, he is identified as apotentialsourceof organs for transplantation.
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Anotherpotentialsourceof variability is the use of resting or baseline measures of cortical physiology, which is highly variable across individual subjects.
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The current study adds semantic information in context as apotentialsourceof adjective knowledge.
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This could form a reservoir of organisms and be apotentialsourceof infection for the vulnerable patient or a source of cross-infection.
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Differential levels of stress associated with traumatic and nontraumatic events thus are a secondpotentialsourceof variance in memory for them.
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Postoperative scarring and distorsion are apotentialsourceof arterial stenosis.
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Previous research on negative input has focused on adult recasts as apotentialsourceof corrective input.
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The source of this commitment is also apotentialsourceof weakness.
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They are also apotentialsourceof cells for transplantation studies.
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