Latent heat Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure
    heat of transformation.

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Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913