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UK
/lˈeɪtənt/
]
[ US /ˈɫeɪtənt/ ]
[ US /ˈɫeɪtənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
potentially existing but not presently evident or realized
a latent fingerprint
latent talent -
(pathology) not presently active
latent infection
latent diabetes
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