latent image

American  

noun

Photography.

1. an invisible image, produced on a sensitized emulsion by exposure to light, that will emerge in development.

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latent image British  

noun

1. photog the invisible image produced by the action of light, etc, on silver halide crystals suspended in the emulsion of a photographic material. It becomes visible after development

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Example Sentences

The acidity of the beer, combined with the added ingredients, creates a solution that can reveal the latent image on the film.

From BBC

"Then, you can develop that latent image into a real image by attaching another material, silver, afterwards. In this way implosion fabrication can create all sorts of structures, including gradients, unconnected structures, and multimaterial patterns,"

From Fox News

"It's a bit like film photography -- a latent image is formed by exposing a sensitive material in a gel to light," said Daniel Oran, an MIT graduate student, and one of the paper's lead authors, in a statement.

From Fox News

You hold the developer of that and flow it across the plate, move it around until you’re seeing the latent image .

From Washington Times

The Daguerreotype was a latent image produced by light on an iodised silver plate, and developed, or made visible, by the fumes of mercury; but the resultant picture was one of the most shimmering and vapoury imaginable, wanting in solidity, colour, and firmness.

From Project Gutenberg