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| excessively zealous person |
| move in waves |
| latent (ˈleɪtənt) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | potential but not obvious or explicit |
| 2. | (of buds, spores, etc) dormant |
| 3. | pathol (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. | psychoanal Compare manifest relating to that part of a dream expressive of repressed desires: latent content |
| [C17: from Latin latēnt-, from latens present participle of latēre to lie hidden] | |
| 'latency | |
| —n | |
| 'latently | |
| —adv | |
latency la·ten·cy (lāt'n-sē)
n.
The state of being latent.
In conditioning, the period of apparent inactivity between the time the stimulus is presented and the moment a response occurs.
See latency phase.