former
not standard
the last of more than two people, things, or groups previously mentioned（已提及的两个以上的人、事物或群体中的）最后一个

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Final and finally
antepenultimate
as a last resortidiom
at the end of the dayidiom
back end
closer
conclusion
end
eventual
eventually
final
finally
hear/see the last of somethingidiom
last
last-ditch
lastly
latest
next to last
the last someone heard/saw of someone/somethingidiom
ultimately

latter | American Dictionary

latter
noun[ U ]
 fmlus/ˈlæt̬·ər/

latternoun[U] (SECOND)

the second of two people, things, or groups previously mentioned:
He directed "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone with the Wind," receiving an Oscar for the latter.
latter
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈlæt̬·ər/

latteradjective[not gradable] (END)

near or toward the end of something:
He was in the news during the latter part of the Watergate scandal.

Examples of latter

latter
In line with previous findings, the former group progressed faster in learning to read the visual list while the latter learned the phonetic list faster.
The latter response is reinforced in us by our obligation to stand in solidarity with victims of wrongdoing against those who have wronged them.
The latter include intelligent agents, natural language understanding and processing, reasoning strategies, and knowledge representations and ontologies.
We incline to think that the latter change, in contrast to the former, represents a cognitive improvement in our condition.
The latter will, however, probably gather more substance from following industry reports than this book.
Thus, the latter method is more appropriate to appraise a party's regional electoral strength.
Members of the former group were all receiving treatment for an eating disorder, whereas members of the latter group were recruited from psychology classes.
The latter had formulated their opinions after a maximum of six months' teaching experience, the former after many years in the classroom.
Such symbolic associations are 'ideological' through and through, though this latter word is problematic.
This latter approach is favoured in semantical investigations as it renders no proof-theoretical problems when forming term models.
The latter two of these are relatively straightforward.
The latter is a sequent calculus that needs none of the standard structural rules of weakening, contraction or cut.
The latter case also suffers secondary bifurcation for some values of the relevant parameters of the problem.
A policy with the latter property equalises the income among individuals with the same relevant characteristic by using only transfers among these individuals.
The latter is illustrated by a vertical bar in figure 4, which gives the span of results obtained in recent lock-exchange experiments.
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