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Webster 1913 Edition

Latency

La′ten-cy

,

Noun.

[See

.]

1.

The state or quality of being latent.

To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish three degrees of this

latency

.

Sir W. Hamilton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Latency

LA'TENCY

,

Noun.

[See Latent.] The state of being concealed; abstruseness.

Definition 2024

latency

latency

English

Noun

latency ‎(plural latencies)

The state of being latent.
(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.
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

(state of being latent): hiddenness, invisibility
lag (casual)
delay

Translations

delay

Czech: latence f, zpoždění (cs) n
Finnish: latenssi, viive (fi)
German: Latenz (de) f, Latenzzeit f, Verborgenheit f, Wartezeit (de) f, Verzögerung (de) f
Greek: υστέρηση (el) f ‎(ystérisi), καθυστέρηση (el) f ‎(kathystérisi)
Icelandic: biðtími m

Italian: latenza f
Japanese: レイテンシ ‎(reitenshi)
Portuguese: latência f
Romanian: latență (ro)
Russian: заде́ржка (ru) f ‎(zadéržka)
Turkish: gecikme (tr), gizlilik (tr), saklılık

delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism

German: Latenzmechanismus m, Latenz (de), Verzögerung (de) f

Portuguese: latência f
Turkish: yataklık süresi