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latent root

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noun Mathematics, Now Rare.
characteristic root (def. 2).
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Origin of latent root

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby latent root

latent function, latent heat, latent image, latent learning, latent period, latent root, latent strabismus, latent time, later, laterad, lateral
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