Latent (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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adjective
  1. present but not visible, apparent, or activated; existing as potential: latent ability.
  2. (of an infectious agent or disease) in a phase of being hidden or unrecognized; not yet exhibiting symptoms.
  3. existing in unconscious or dormant form but potentially able to achieve expression: latent learning,a latent emotion.
  4. (of buds that are not externally manifest) dormant or undeveloped.
adjective
  1. potential but not obvious or explicit
  2. (of buds, spores, etc) dormant
  3. (esp of an infectious disease) not yet revealed or manifest
  4. (of a virus) inactive in the host cell, its nucleic acid being integrated into, and replicated with, the host cell's DNA
  5. relating to that part of a dream expressive of repressed desires
Latent (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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