Even without a weapons project in Japan, many Asian nations say, the mere presence of large amounts of plutonium in the country constitutes a latent nuclear capability.

It has a latent capability.

In subsequent work the technique's latent capability was eventually achieved.

I perceived those latent capabilities when I assembled your Lens, and developed them when I developed you.

General Powell admits to their 'latent capability' but insists the allies now have 'air superiority'.

But your mind, while undeveloped, is of considerable greater capacity than his, and of greater and more varied latent capabilities.

Some in Israel are worried that Iran may achieve a latent capability to produce nuclear weapons without taking any overt steps that would expose it to further international action.

I had the latent capabilities.

He recognizes young players' limitations, but he also sees in them latent capabilities maybe they don't see themselves.

The aim is to discover the person's "latent metapsychic capabilities" - in other words, the so-called hidden eccentricity.