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latent image

American  

noun

Photography.

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

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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Latent image, formed at low temperatures, 202; Bose's theory of, 203; photo-electric theory of, 204, 209 _et seq._

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John

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