Sentence examples for latent for it from inspiring English sources

The conflict of arms must be actual, and not merely latent, for it to count as war.

And cancer also can sit latent for years, making it hard to link cause and effect.

It remains latent for the life of the infected host and causes intermittent viral shedding, at which time it is infectious to susceptible persons.

It's considered a cult classic and – like many cult classics – there is a latent market for its return.

However, because no gold standard exists for diagnosing latent tuberculosis, it is impossible to know definitely which test is more accurate.

In this way, an attitudinal scale score serves as a proxy for the latent construct it is purported to measure, and researchers need to be prepared to defend the validity and limitations of their scale in representing it (Clark and Watson, 1995).

The infection can remain latent for years while the host's immune system is able to combat it.

While this test is the recommended diagnosis test for latent TB infection, it requires standardized application and interpretation, and a positive result depends on an adequate immune response [ 6].

Indeed, standard theory for scoring cognitive tests (Lord and Novick [1968]) takes as axiomatic that θ i is a latent variable, and any proxy for it entails some measurement error.

Much of directing is directing against the script, of mining it for what's latent in it — which often means breaking it open in some essential way.

For now, most of those effects are invisible and could indeed remain latent for a long time.