"latent" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈleɪ.tənt/ Audio: En-us-latent.ogg
Rhymes: -eɪtənt Etymology: From Middle English latent, latente, from Old French latent, from Latin latēns, present participle of lateō (“lie hidden”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*leh₂-|id=concealed}}, {{inh|en|enm|latent}} Middle English latent, {{der|en|fro|latent}} Old French latent, {{der|en|la|latēns}} Latin latēns Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} latent (not comparable)
  1. Existing or present but concealed or inactive. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: hidden, invisible Translations (existing or present but concealed or inactive): كَامِن (kāmin) (Arabic), دَفِين (dafīn) (Arabic), латентен (latenten) (Bulgarian), 潛在 (Chinese Mandarin), 潜在 (qiánzài) (Chinese Mandarin), latentní (Czech), latent (Danish), latent (Dutch), latentne (Estonian), varjatud (Estonian), latentti (Finnish), piilevä (Finnish), latent [masculine] (French), latent (German), λανθάνων (lanthánon) [masculine] (Greek), חבוי (Hebrew), רדום (Hebrew), לטנטי (Hebrew), látens (Hungarian), latente (Italian), 潜在的 (senzaiteki) (alt: せんざいてき) (Japanese), torohū (Maori), latent (Norwegian Bokmål), نهفته (nahofte) (Persian), ukryty [masculine] (Polish), uśpiony [masculine] (Polish), latente [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), скры́тый (skrýtyj) (Russian), лате́нтный (laténtnyj) (Russian), सुप्त (supta) (Sanskrit), dìomhair (Scottish Gaelic), latente (Spanish), latent (Swedish), fördröjning (Swedish), saklı (Turkish), ngầm (Vietnamese), ngấm ngần (Vietnamese), âm ỉ (Vietnamese), ẩn (Vietnamese), tiềm tàng (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-latent-en-adj-2WDxXN0Q Disambiguation of 'existing or present but concealed or inactive': 77 15 8
  2. (pathology, of a virus) Remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Pathology Synonyms: dormant, inactive
    Sense id: en-latent-en-adj-rzVHnX~j Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
  3. (biology) Lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Biology
    Sense id: en-latent-en-adj-R3nSLbMI Topics: biology, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: latency, latent fingerprint, latent heat, latent print, latent space, latent time, latent value, latent variable

Noun

IPA: /ˈleɪ.tənt/ Audio: En-us-latent.ogg Forms: latents [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪtənt Etymology: From Middle English latent, latente, from Old French latent, from Latin latēns, present participle of lateō (“lie hidden”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*leh₂-|id=concealed}}, {{inh|en|enm|latent}} Middle English latent, {{der|en|fro|latent}} Old French latent, {{der|en|la|latēns}} Latin latēns Head templates: {{en-noun}} latent (plural latents)
  1. (forensics) The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint.
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  2. (statistics) An underlying cause that can be inferred from statistical correlations; factor. Categories (topical): Statistics
    Sense id: en-latent-en-noun-8671H0Ue Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
  3. Anything that is latent.
    Sense id: en-latent-en-noun-18X52wox

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "2001, Henry C. Lee, Timothy Palmbach, Marilyn T. Miller, Henry Lee's Crime Scene Handbook, →ISBN, page 383:",
          "text": "Once the latent prints have been visualized by the superglue and powder dusting techniques, they should be photographed again. Then the developed latents need to be lifted and placed on backing cards. The latent cards are documented by putting the case number, date and time of lifting, initials of person processing the evidence, and a sketch indicating the location of the lifted latent print on the back of the lift card, as shown in Photo 6.6.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Jim Fisher, Forensics Under Fire, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Paralegal workers do not argue cases in court, and these crimescene fingerprint gatherers do not compare crime-scene latents to known prints of suspects and present their findings in court.",
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        }
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        "The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint."
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        "(forensics) The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint."
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          "ref": "1975, Rudolph J. Rummel, Understanding Conflict and War, →ISBN:",
          "text": "These kinds of latents define the invariant dispositional properties enabling prediction and control of the external environment. Finally, there are the latents that underlie manifestation as relationships of power, as cause to effect, condition to occurrence, or dependent variable to independent variable.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, William Outhwaite, Stephen Turner, The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology, →ISBN, page 166:",
          "text": "That is, the observed covariance between indicator y₁ and y₃ would mirror the understandable causal behavior of the corresponding underlying latents.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Stanley A. Mulaik, Linear Causal Modeling with Structural Equations, →ISBN, page 209:",
          "text": "If one were to compute the reproduced covariances among the latents of the structural model, they might be different from the covariances obtained between the same number of latents in the measurement model.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Javier Cumpa, Erwin Tegtmeier, Ontological Categories, →ISBN, page 158:",
          "text": "Even if latents may not be actually detectable in any given situation, they may nevertheless be present in it. Latents may become actual if proper triggering conditions are in place, or they may be lost in the process.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Christa Wick, Alpha Curves: A BBW Shapeshifter Romance:",
          "text": "After we discovered Leah and I realized what she was, the flood gates opened. More and more latents have been discovered, as well as cubs.",
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        }
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}

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