latent heat

English

Noun

latent heat (countable and uncountable, plural latent heats)

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

   Synonym: heat of transformation

Translations

heat that is released or absorbed accompanying a change of state or of phase

• Catalan: calor latent f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潛熱／潜热 (zh) (qiánrè)

• Esperanto: latenta varmo
• French: enthalpie de changement d’état f
• Galician: calor latente (gl)
• German: latente Wärme f
• Greek: λανθάνουσα θερμότητα f (lanthánousa thermótita)
• Indonesian: kalor laten
• Irish: teas folaigh m
• Japanese: 潜熱 (sennetsu)
• Korean: 잠열 (jamyeol)
• Malay: haba pendam (ms)
• Malayalam: ലീനതാപം (līnatāpaṁ)
• Portuguese: calor latente m
• Spanish: calor latente m
• Tagalog: lingid na init
• Tamil: மறை வெப்பம் (maṟai veppam)
• Thai: ความร้อนแฝงจำเพาะ

Further reading

• latent heat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia