meaning of latex

1. A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation.
2. LaTeX text, tool> Lamport TeX Leslie Lamport dec. com>s document preparation system built on top of TeX. LaTeX was developed at SRI Internationals Computer Science Laboratory and was built to resemble Scribe. LaTeX adds commands to simplify typesetting and lets the user concentrate on the structure of the text rather than on formatting commands. BibTeX is a LaTeX package for bibliographic citations. Lamports LaTeX book has an exemplary index listing every symbol, concept and example in the book. The index in the, now obsolete, first edition includes on page 221 the mysterious entry "Gilkerson, Ellen, 221". The second edition 1994 has an entry for "infinite loop" instead. ["LaTeX, A Document Preparation System", Leslie Lamport, A-W 1986, ISBN 0-201-15790-X first edition, now obsolete].
3. a water-base paint having a latex binder

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