Latency

Quick meaning: Latency is a noun meaning Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.

Meaning

Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.

More Meanings

1. Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
2. (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
3. (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
4. (artificial intelligence) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
5. 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.

Example Sentences

network latency

period of latency

The disease has a long period of latency.

Word Forms

• latencies
• latence

Synonyms for latency

Depending on context, synonyms include hiddenness, invisibility, lag, delay.

Antonyms for latency

Common opposites include apparency.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include latent, dormancy, lag, lapse, delay, redundant.

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