[ UK /lˈe‍ɪtənt/ ]
[ US /ˈɫeɪtənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
    a latent fingerprint
    latent talent
  2. (pathology) not presently active
    latent infection
    latent diabetes
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How To Use latent In A Sentence

  • If they receive a second exposure with a low intensity light, developer anions adsorbed to the surface sensitivity centers effectively repel the photoelectrons so that surface latent image specks cannot form.
  • The Opposition was also anxious to embarrass the Government, and to trap it within its own latent inconsistencies.
  • Harry disguises the latent homosexual feelings he has for his best friend Ron, by having a string of one night stands with besotted girls in the year below him.
  • The latent demand for uncoated groundwood publication, printing, and supercalendered paper is not actual or historic sales.
  • These include chemoprophylaxis for patients with latent infection, and strategies for chemotherapy of dually infected individuals.
  • Thus Philo Judaeus may equate the hy - ponoia of a text with its latent theme, its mystery, its secret, its unexpressed, unseen, nonliteral, or simply intelligible meaning. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • Brooks and colleagues also found variability in the number of latent infections among contacts of 21 patients with TB.
  • With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage. Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
  • Naturally is an all latent Nue Yin first crazy, this be the undisputable fact, you denial also useless.
  • Spiritus quoque aeris et mali genii aliquando se tempestatibus ingerunt, et menti humanae se latenter insinuant, eamque vexant, exagitant, et ut fluctus marini, humanum corpus ventis agitatur. Anatomy of Melancholy
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