latent : Idioms & Phrases

• (bot.), buds which remain undeveloped or dormant for a long time, but may at length grow.

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• noun (psychoanalysis) hidden meaning of a fantasy or dream
  

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• noun a mild form of diabetes mellitus in which there are no overt symptoms but there are abnormal responses to some diagnostic procedures
  chemical diabetes.
  

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

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• (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

• noun feelings of hostility that are not manifest
  tension.
  
  • he could sense her latent hostility to him
  • the diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions

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• noun the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
  latency; reaction time; response time.
  
• noun the time that elapses before the presence of a disease is manifested by symptoms
  

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• . (a) (Med.) The regular time in which a disease is supposed to be existing without manifesting itself . (b) (Physiol.) One of the phases in a simple muscular contraction, in which invisible preparatory changes are taking place in the nerve and muscle . (c) (Biol.) One of those periods or resting stages in the development of the ovum, in which development is arrested prior to renewed activity.

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• noun schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia
  borderline schizophrenia.
  

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