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–noun, plural lat·i·ces

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1.	a milky liquid in certain plants, as milkweeds, euphorbias, poppies, or the plants yielding India rubber, that coagulates on exposure to air.

2.	Chemistry. any emulsion in water of finely divided particles of synthetic rubber or plastic.

[Origin: 1655–65; < NL, special use of L latex water, juice, liquid

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la·tex Audio Help (lā'těks') Pronunciation Key
n. pl. la·ti·ces (lā'tĭ-sēz', lāt'ĭ-) or la·tex·es

The colorless or milky sap of certain plants, such as the poinsettia or milkweed, that coagulates on exposure to air.
An emulsion of rubber or plastic globules in water, used in paints, adhesives, and various synthetic rubber products.
Latex paint.

[Latin, fluid.]

la'tex' adj.

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latex

1662, "body fluid," from L. latex (gen. laticis) "liquid, fluid," probably from Gk. latax "dregs," from PIE base *lat- "wet" (cf. M.Ir. laith "beer," Welsh llaid "mud, mire," Lith. latakas "pool, puddle," O.N. leþja "filth"). Used 1835 to mean "milky liquid from plants." Meaning "water-dispersed polymer particles" (used in rubber goods, paints, etc.) is from 1937.

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latex
noun
1.	a milky exudate from certain plants that coagulates on exposure to air
2.	a water-base paint that has a latex binder [syn: latex paint]

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latex [ˈleiteks] noun

the milky juice of some plants especially rubber trees

Arabic:	نُسْغ شَجَر المَطّاط
Chinese (Simplified):	乳液，橡胶
Chinese (Traditional):	乳液，橡膠
Czech:	latex
Danish:	mælkesaft; -mælk
Dutch:	latex
Estonian:	piimmahl
Finnish:	maitiaisneste
French:	latex
German:	der Gummibaumsaft,der Kutschuk
Greek:	γαλακτώδης χυμός φυτών
Hungarian:	gumitej
Icelandic:	mjólkursafi
Indonesian:	lateks
Italian:	lattice

Japanese:	乳液
Korean:	(고무 등의) 유액, 라텍스
Latvian:	(augu) piensula
Lithuanian:	lateksas
Norwegian:	lateks, gummimelk
Polish:	mleczko kauczukowe
Portuguese (Brazil):	látex
Portuguese (Portugal):	látex
Romanian:	latex
Russian:	латекс
Slovak:	latex
Slovenian:	mleček
Spanish:	látex
Swedish:	latex
Turkish:	kauçuk ağacının özsuyu; lâteks

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latex Audio Help (lā'těks') Pronunciation Key

The colorless or milky sap of certain trees and plants, such as the milkweed and the rubber tree, that hardens when exposed to the air. Latex usually contains gum resins, waxes, and oils, and sometimes toxic substances.
A manufactured emulsion of synthetic rubber or plastic droplets in water that resembles the latex of plants. It is used in paints, adhesives, and synthetic rubber products.

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LaTeX language, text, tool
(Lamport TeX) Leslie Lamport 's document preparation system built on top of TeX. LaTeX was developed at SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory and was built to resemble Scribe.
LaTeX adds commands to simplify typesetting and lets the user concentrate on the structure of the text rather than on formatting commands.
BibTeX is a LaTeX package for bibliographic citations.
Lamport's LaTeX book has an exemplary index listing every symbol, concept and example in the book. The index in the, now obsolete, first edition includes (on page 221) the mysterious entry "Gilkerson, Ellen, 221". The second edition (1994) has an entry for "infinite loop" instead.
["LaTeX, A Document Preparation System", Leslie Lamport, A-W 1986, ISBN 0-201-15790-X (first edition, now obsolete)].
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