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Definition of Latent

Latent
Latent La"tent, a. [L. latens, -entis, p. pr. of latere to lie hid or concealed; cf. Gr. ?, E. lethargy: cf. F. latent.] Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. --Burke. Latent buds (bot.), buds which remain undeveloped or dormant for a long time, but may at length grow. Latent heat (Physics), that quantity of heat which disappears or becomes concealed in a body while producing some change in it other than rise of temperature, as fusion, evaporation, or expansion, the quantity being constant for each particular body and for each species of change. Latent period. (a) (Med.) The regular time in which a disease is supposed to be existing without manifesting itself. (b) (Physiol.) One of the phases in a simple muscular contraction, in which invisible preparatory changes are taking place in the nerve and muscle. (c) (Biol.) One of those periods or resting stages in the development of the ovum, in which development is arrested prior to renewed activity.

Meaning of Latent from wikipedia

- Look up latency or latent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Latency or latent may refer to: Latency (engineering), a measure of the time delay experienced...
- Latent heat (also known as latent energy or heat of transformation) is energy released or absorbed, by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature...
- A latent space, also known as a latent feature space or embedding space, is an embedding of a set of items within a manifold in which items resembling...
- Latent tuberculosis (LTB), also called latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is when a person is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but does not...
- Incubation period (also known as the latent period or latency period) is the time elapsed between exposure to a pathogenic organism, a chemical, or radiation...
- Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is a technique in natural language processing, in particular distributional semantics, of analyzing relationships between...
- [citation needed] EBV can exhibit one of three latency programs: Latency I, Latency II, or Latency III. Each latency program leads to the production of a limited...
- computer programming, latent typing refers to a type system where types are ****ociated with values and not variables. An example latently typed language is...
- called live scan. A "latent print" is the chance recording of friction ridges deposited on the surface of an object or a wall. Latent prints are invisible...
- Latent human error is a term used in safety work and accident prevention, especially in aviation, to describe human errors which are likely to be made...