Latency

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The state or quality of being latent.
  • n. Psychology The latency period.
  • n. A latent period.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The state of being latent.
  • n. A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
  • n. The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state or quality of being latent.
  • n. The time between a stimulus the appearance of the response; the time between any causal action and the first appearance of the effect. Called also latent period.
  • n. The time between exposure to a carcinogen or other disease-causing agent and the appearance of the consequent disease.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being latent or concealed; unobserved or undeveloped existence.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
  • n. (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
  • n. the state of being not yet evident or active
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    interval    time interval    potentiality    potency    potential   
    Variant
    latent period   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    throughput    jitter    scalability    bandwidth    linearity   
     
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