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Latent
Latent La"tent, a. [L. latens, -entis, p. pr. of latere to lie hid or concealed; cf. Gr. ?, E. lethargy: cf. F. latent.] Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action. The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise. --Burke. Latent buds (bot.), buds which remain undeveloped or dormant for a long time, but may at length grow. Latent heat (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. Latent period. (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.

Meaning of LATENT from wikipedia

- Look up latency or latent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Latency or latent may refer to: Latency (engineering), a measure of the time delay experienced...
- Latent heat (also known as latent energy or heat of transformation) is energy released or absorbed, by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature...
- India's Got Latent was an Indian Hindi-language talent show hosted by Samay Raina on YouTube that provided a platform for contestants from across the country...
- A latent space, also known as a latent feature space or embedding space, is an embedding of a set of items within a manifold in which items resembling...
- Latent tuberculosis (LTB), also called latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is when a person is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but does not...
- symptoms, in which case it is known as inactive or latent tuberculosis. A small proportion of latent infections progress to active disease that, if left...
- A latent image is an invisible image produced by the exposure to light of a photosensitive material such as photographic film. When photographic film is...
- Latent inhibition (LI) is a technical term in classical conditioning, where a familiar stimulus takes longer to acquire meaning (as a signal or conditioned...
- In statistics, latent variables (from Latin: present participle of lateo, “lie hidden”) are variables that can only be inferred indirectly through a mathematical...
- The Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) is a diffusion model architecture developed by the CompVis (Computer Vision & Learning) group at LMU Munich. Introduced...