(intransitive) To grow late; become later.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of laten

present participle of laten

simple past tense and past participle of laten

Existing or present but concealed or inactive. / (pathology, of a virus) remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant.

(forensics) The residue left by a person's finger that can be made visible by a process such as powder dusting; a latent fingerprint.

plural of latency

The property of being late.

Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden. / Dormancy; the state of being inactive. / (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.

(physics) the heat that is released or absorbed accompanying a change of state or of phase