latent image

noun

, Photography.

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

latent image

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

Example Sentences

"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

Mr. Reade generously ascribes all honour and glory to Mr. Talbot for his shrewdness in seizing what he had overlooked, viz., the development of the latent image; but there is a quiet current of rebuke running all through Mr. Reade’s letter about the justice of patenting a known sensitiser and a known accelerator, which he alone had combined and applied to the successful production of a negative on paper.

From Project Gutenberg

I did not realize the master fact that the latent image which had been developed was the basis of photographic manipulation.

From Project Gutenberg