Latency in English dictionary

  • latency

    Meanings and definitions of "Latency"

    • (electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
    • (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
    • noun
      The state of being latent.
    • noun
      (electronics)
      A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
    • noun
      (medicine)
      The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
    • noun
      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.
    • delay
    • delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism
    • The delay that occurs while data is processed or delivered.
    • A delay, a period between the initiation of something and its occurrence.
    • standby time (e.g. cellular phones)
    • noun
      (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
    • noun
      the state of being not yet evident or active
    • noun
      the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it

    Synonyms of "Latency" in English dictionary

    reaction time, time interval, latent period are the top synonyms of "Latency" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of Latency

    • latency ( plural  latencies)
    • latency (plural latencies)
  • Latency

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