LATENT HEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does latent heat mean? 

• LATENT HEAT (noun)
  The noun LATENT HEAT has 1 sense:

1. heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure

  Familiarity information: LATENT HEAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATENT HEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

heat of transformation; latent heat

Hypernyms ("latent heat" is a kind of...):

heat; heat energy (a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "latent heat"):

heat of condensation (heat liberated by a unit mass of gas at its boiling point as it condenses into a liquid)

heat of fusion (heat absorbed by a unit mass of a solid at its melting point in order to convert the solid into a liquid at the same temperature)

heat of solidification (heat liberated by a unit mass of liquid at its freezing point when it solidifies)

heat of sublimation (heat absorbed by a unit mass of material when it changes from a solid to a gaseous state)

heat of vaporisation; heat of vaporization (heat absorbed by a unit mass of a material at its boiling point in order to convert the material into a gas at the same temperature)