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Meaning
Noun
●
In Medicine:
A
clear
liquid
believed
to be a
component
of a
humour
or other
bodily fluid
(esp.
plasma
and lymph)
●
The
milky
sap
of several
trees
that
coagulates
on
exposure
to
air
; used to make rubber.
●
An
emulsion
of
rubber
in water, used in
adhesives
and the like.
●
Natural
latex
rubber
, especially non-vulcanized
rubber
, such
as is
used in making
latex
gloves
,
latex
condoms
, and
latex
clothing.
Name
●
A
digital
typesetting
system for
mathematical
and
scientific
formulae
layout
, based on TeX; often
stylized
as LaTeX.
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Origin
latex
English
latex
Latin
Sourced from
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