Usually means: Present but not immediately observable.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word latent:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. latent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. latent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. latent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. latent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. latent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Latent, latent: Wordnik
  7. latent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. latent: Wiktionary
  9. latent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. latent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. latent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. latent: Dictionary.com
  13. latent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Latent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. latent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. latent: Free Dictionary
  17. latent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. latent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  19. latent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. latent: Rhymezone
  21. latent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  22. Latent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. Latent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. latent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. latent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. latent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Latent: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. latent: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. latent: Medical dictionary
  5. Latent: Drug Medical Dictionary
  6. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. latent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See latently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Existing or present but concealed or inactive.
adjective:  (pathology, of a virus) Remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant.
adjective:  (biology) Lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation.
noun:  (forensics) The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint.
noun:  (statistics) An underlying cause that can be inferred from statistical correlations; factor.
noun:  Anything that is latent.

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