latency

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Pronunciation

• (British, America) IPA: /ˈleɪ.tən.si/

Noun

latency

1. The state of being latent.
2. (electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
3. (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
4. 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 (not physics- or electronic gaming-related)
• delay

Translations

• German: Latenz, Latenzzeit, Verborgenheit, Wartezeit, Verzögerung
• Italian: latenza
• Portuguese: latência
• Russian: заде́ржка

Translations

• German: Latenzmechanismus, Latenz, Verzögerung
• Portuguese: latência

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