Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
2. Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
3. (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
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. (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
6. 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

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Use latency when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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