Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being latent.
- noun Psychology The latency period.
- noun A latent period.
- noun The time interval between initiating a query, transmission, or process, and receiving or detecting the results, often given as an average value over a large number of events.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being latent or concealed; unobserved or undeveloped existence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being latent.
- noun 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 . - noun (Med.) The time between exposure to a carcinogen or other disease-causing agent and the appearance of the consequent disease.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
latent . - noun electronics A
delay , a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence. - noun medicine The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
- noun (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
- noun the state of being not yet evident or active
Etymologies
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Examples
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For eukaryotes typically the term latency is used.
Marine viruses 2007
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[12], we will reserve the term latency (L) to an unobserved hypothetical time.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Léon Plaghki et al. 2010
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The latency is simply the round-trip time for a trivial calculation.
Wolfram Blog : The Evolution of Parallel Computing with Mathematica 2009
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Latency would be another result of this — but latency is rarely an issue for file sharing, of course.
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Even when it works, network latency is usually awful.
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Message latency is generally measured in days, but security is absolute.
365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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If latency is 4 seconds, your explanation would read like this:
Boing Boing 2008
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If latency is 4 seconds, your explanation would read like this:
Boing Boing 2008
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I have also heard that with newer software packages that the latency is minimized.
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Message latency is generally measured in days, but security is absolute.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
mcchris commented on the word latency
I find it really frustrating when people talk about "network lag," since "latency" is such a great word for it. When people people say they have "network lag" I often wonder if they also have "brain lag."
June 21, 2007
seanahan commented on the word latency
I think your completely wrong. Any given operation across a network has a latency, but overall, a period of unusually high latencies can be abbreviated as lag. If you can come up with a one syllable (or even two) way to say this better, I'll take it.
June 22, 2007
sera commented on the word latency
"The state of being not yet evident or active"
August 13, 2007
bilby commented on the word latency
Que?
July 9, 2008
brooklynite commented on the word latency
In regard to virtual reality productions, "latency" refers to the disorienting lag that users feel when turning theirs heads and the visuals don't quite keep up. This latency results from the mismatch between the motion one feels (with his/her inner ear) and the image one sees (with eyes).
October 11, 2016