Crossword clues for latent
latent
- Hidden; dormant
- Hidden in dead part of Australia
- Like some fingerprints
- Under the surface
- Fingerprint made visible by dusting
- Temporarily inactive
- Type of fingerprint
- Present but hidden
- Present but inactive
- Not yet visible
- Hidden, as talent
- Hidden, as ability
- Hidden beneath the surface
- Fingerprint found by dusting
- Untapped, as a skill
- Talent (anag)
- Potential but not active
- Not yet developed
- Not yet apparent
- Lying dormant
- Like many fingerprints
- Like a hidden talent
- Inactive — potential
- Fingerprint variety
- Dusting find
- Dusting discovery
- Certain fingerprint
- Not yet actualized
- Potentially existing but not presently evident
- Underlying
- Hidden, as fingerprints
- As yet unactualized
- Present but not visible
- Present but not active
- Scarcely visible fingerprint
- Unexpressed
- Undeveloped
- Not obvious
- Present but unseen
- Delitescent
- Potentially active
- Dormant
- Existent but unrevealed
- Quiescent
- Not manifest
- Lying hidden
- Concealed, dormant
- Not clearly visible
- Lying undeveloped
- Existing but not yet manifest
- Not yet manifest
- Not presently active
- Passed on religious books in secret
- Inactive - potential
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Latent \La"tent\ (l[=a]"tent), a. [L. latens, -entis, p. pr. of latere to lie hid or concealed; cf. Gr. lanqa`nein, E. lethargy: cf. F. latent.]
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Not visible or apparent; hidden; concealed; secret; dormant; as, latent springs of action.
The evils latent in the most promising contrivances are provided for as they arise.
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(Med.) Existing but not presenting symptoms; dormant or developing; -- of disease, especially infectious diseases; as, the latent phase of an infection. Latent buds (Bot.), buds which remain undeveloped or dormant for a long time, but may eventually 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; the amount of heat required to produce a change of phase. Latent period.
(Med.) The regular time in which a disease is supposed to be existing without manifesting itself.
(Physiol.) One of the phases in a simple muscular contraction, in which invisible preparatory changes are taking place in the nerve and muscle.
(Biol.) One of those periods or resting stages in the development of the ovum, in which development is arrested prior to renewed activity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "concealed, secret," from Latin latentem (nominative latens) "lying hid, secret, unknown," present participle of latere "to lie hidden," from PIE *laidh-, from root *la- "to be hidden" (cognates: Greek lethe "forgetfulness, oblivion," Old Church Slavonic lajati "to lie in wait for"). Meaning "dormant" is from 1680s.
Wiktionary
a. exist or present but concealed or inactive.
WordNet
adj. potentially existing but not presently evident or realized; "a latent fingerprint"; "latent talent"
not presently active; "latent infection"; "latent diabetes"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "latent".
There is no test so powerfully able to bring out latent adaptability as one in which the stakes are survival.
The tidal regularity of cerebral chemical flows, the cyclonic violence latent in the adrenergic current of the autonomic nervous system, the delicate mysteries of the sweep of oxygen atoms from pneumonic membrane into the bloodstream.
An actual or latent aggressiveness on the part of any one nation inevitably provokes its neighbors into a defiant and suspicious temper.
Red cree lacked the medicinal quality of the blue in which, partly because of its chemical reaction to the ammoniated air and partly due to the latent eggs it harbored, lay the curative power so much in demand on Earth.
Every homosexual is a latent heterosexual, every authoritarian cop is the shell over an anarchistic libido.
Sitting face-to-face with Buglet gripping her hands, looking into her amber-black eyes, he kept on trying to find latent recollections like her own.
Latent had pulled fifty million smudged partials from the caduceus buttons.
The heat of the element of pure fire that she had absorbed long ago during her trek through the Earth from her island homeland to this place on the other side of the world burned latent in her cheeks, much dimmer than it did in her eyes, where it could be seen most clearly when she was awake.
Nils Esterling, a blood heritage that fought its way to the surface and brought out all the latent mysticism of his race.
While crime was latent in gangland, The Shadow devoted his attention to other matters.
He had passed his life amid wild adventure and in scenes of peril which suited such a disposition, and it most probably required either some strong motive of danger, like that of the tempest on the Leman, or a stimulant of another quality, to draw out the latent properties of his mind, which so well fitted him to lead when others were the most disposed to follow.
Instead, current thinking held that there was a lexical universe as well as a physical one, and bringing an object together with a compatible name caused the latent potentialities of both to be realized.
Even in her fatigue and in this dreamy twilight she was conscious of a latent excitement that was not lulled to sleep.
Ann, the young assistant, played with acorn cups and bits of china under the old oak, unmolested, for Maumer was wrestling with a problem, and all of the latent, unsuspected savagery was rising.
Southern Ehleenee, whom we conquered piecemeal, only one or two percent were accomplished mindspeakers, and even those with latent powers only brought the figure to something less than ten out of every hundred.