(psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age 5 or 6 until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities

The period between infection and the appearance of symptoms of the disease

In epidemiology, particularly in the discussion of infectious disease dynamics, the latent period is the time interval between when an individual or host is infected by a pathogen and when that individual becomes infectious, i.e. capable of transmitting pathogens to other susceptible individuals.