latent

In a sentence

Six example sentences with latent, each labelled with its topic.

• The infection can stay latent for decades, leaving no symptom at all until the immune system weakens in old age.

  Medicine

• A latent image sits on the exposed film with nothing visible, waiting for developer to bring the picture out.

  Photography

• A latent talent for languages surfaced at forty, when a work posting sent him to Lisbon for six months.

  Psychology

• The bug stayed latent for two years, until a leap-day timestamp finally sent the code down the untested branch.

  Technology

• Cheap flights revealed a latent demand for weekend travel that nobody had measured while fares stayed high.

  Economics

• Aristotle treated the oak as latent in the acorn, a form present from the start though not yet visible.

  Philosophy

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