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51Latent period — Latent La tent (l[=a] tent), a. [L. latens, entis, p. pr. of latere to lie hid or concealed; cf. Gr. lanqa nein, E. lethargy: cf. F. latent.] 1. Not visible or apparent; hidden; concealed; secret; dormant; as, latent springs of action. [1913… …
52Latent autoimmune diabetes — in adults (LADA) is a genetically linked, hereditary autoimmune disorder that results in the body mistaking the pancreas as foreign and responding by attacking and destroying the insulin producing beta islet cells of the pancreas. Simply stated,… …
53Latent semantic mapping — (LSM) is a data driven framework to model globally meaningful relationships implicit in large volumes of (often textual) data. It is a generalization of latent semantic analysis.Mac OS X v10.5 includes a framework implementing latent semantic… …
54Latent Semantic Structure Indexing — (LaSSI) is a technique for calculating chemical similarity derived from Latent semantic analysis (LSA).LaSSI was developed at Merck Co. and patented in 2007 [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph Parser?patentnumber=7219020] by Richard Hull, Eugene… …
55Latent heat flux — is the flux of heat from the Earth s surface to the atmosphere that is associated with evaporation of water at the surface and subsequent condensation of water vapor in the troposphere. It is an important component of Earth s surface energy… …
56Latent growth modeling — is a statistical technique used in the structural equation modeling (SEM) framework to estimate growth trajectory. It is a longitudinal analysis technique to estimate growth over a period of time. It is widely used in the field of behavioral… …
57Latent Semantic Indexing — (kurz LSI, englisch für schwache Bedeutungseinordnung) ist ein (patentgeschütztes) Verfahren des Information Retrieval, das 1990 zuerst von Deerwester et al.[1] erwähnt wurde. Verfahren wie das LSI sind insbesondere für die Suche auf großen… …
58latent ambiguity — latent am·bi·gu·i·ty / ˌam bə gyü ə tē/ n: an uncertainty which does not appear on the face of a legal instrument (as a contract or will) but which arises from a consideration of extrinsic facts or evidence compare patent ambiguity Merriam… …
59latent defect — ➔ defect1 * * * latent defect UK US noun [C] ► PRODUCTION a defect or problem with a product, property, etc. that is hard to notice and may not be noticed before it is bought: »When buying real estate, a cracked foundation is a serious latent… …
60Latent Image — can mean a few things: *Latent image, a photographic term *Latent Image (Voyager episode), a fifth season episode of …
