"latent heat" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: latent heats [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} latent heat (countable and uncountable, plural latent heats)
  1. (physics) The heat that is released or absorbed accompanying a change of state or of a phase. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Physics Synonyms: heat of transformation Translations (heat that is released or absorbed accompanying a change of state or of phase): calor latent [feminine] (Catalan), 潛熱 (Chinese Mandarin), 潜热 (qiánrè) (Chinese Mandarin), latenta varmo (Esperanto), enthalpie de changement d’état [feminine] (French), calor latente (Galician), latente Wärme [feminine] (German), λανθάνουσα θερμότητα (lanthánousa thermótita) [feminine] (Greek), kalor laten (Indonesian), teas folaigh [masculine] (Irish), 潜熱 (sennetsu) (Japanese), 잠열 (jamyeol) (Korean), haba pendam (Malay), ലീനതാപം (līnatāpaṁ) (Malayalam), calor latente [masculine] (Portuguese), calor latente [masculine] (Spanish), lingid na init (Tagalog), மறை வெப்பம் (maṟai veppam) (Tamil), ความร้อนแฝงจำเพาะ (Thai)

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