latency
nounUK, US /ˈleɪ.tən.si/
Etymology From latent + -ency.
Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- network latency
The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
Artificial intelligence
Medicine, Sciences The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- period of latency
- The disease has a long period of latency.
A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
- Synonyms
- hiddenness, invisibility, lag, delay
- Antonyms
- apparency
- Derived terms
- antilatency, intravaginal ejaculation latency time, latency time