Usually means: Heat absorbed or released, phase-change.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. latent heat: Merriam-Webster
  2. latent heat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. latent heat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. latent heat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. latent heat: Vocabulary.com
  6. latent heat: Wordnik
  7. latent heat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. latent heat: Wiktionary
  9. latent heat: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. latent heat: Dictionary.com
  11. Latent Heat, Latent heat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. latent heat: Rhymezone
  13. latent heat: FreeDictionary.org
  14. latent heat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. latent heat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. latent heat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. latent heat: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. latent heat: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Latent Heat: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  3. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)
  4. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Energy Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  7. LATENT HEAT: The Home Appliance Page
  8. LATENT HEAT: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (latent heat)

noun:  (physics) The heat that is released or absorbed accompanying a change of state or of a phase.

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