Latency

Word LATENCY
Character 7
Hyphenation la ten cy
Pronunciations /ˈleɪ.tən.si/

Definitions and meanings of "Latency"

What do we mean by latency?

The state or quality of being latent. noun

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. noun

The state of being latent or concealed; unobserved or undeveloped existence. 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

The time between exposure to a carcinogen or other disease-causing agent and the appearance of the consequent disease. noun

The state of being latent. noun

A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence. noun

The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism. 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 noun

The state of being latent.

A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.

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 and Antonyms for Latency

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The word "latency" in example sentences

For eukaryotes typically the term latency is used. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[12], we will reserve the term latency (L) to an unobserved hypothetical time. ❋ Léon Plaghki Et Al. (2010)

Latency would be another result of this — but latency is rarely an issue for file sharing, of course. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The latency is simply the round-trip time for a trivial calculation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even when it works, network latency is usually awful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Message latency is generally measured in days, but security is absolute. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If latency is 4 seconds, your explanation would read like this: ❋ Unknown (2008)

I have also heard that with newer software packages that the latency is minimized. ❋ Unknown (2008)

SMS pincode latency is (imo) less of a problem than bouncing users in and out of browsers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Given that CQ resistance has arisen less than 10 times in the last 50 years, the average latency is more than five years. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As for using Akamai as “G” suggested, I never understood that unless you were pushing large files (gigabytes) and wanted to get the data closer to your customers because latency is an issue. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Minimum round-trip communications latency is measured between numerous stations on the network and known network addressed equipment to form a network latency topology map. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The latency is much better too — with T-Mobile I had many long pauses while loading pages, and this rarely happens with Sprint. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Minimum round-trip communications latency is also measured between the stations and the logical network address to be geolocated. ❋ Unknown (2005)

All of that latency is going to pinpoint my location anywhere between South Asia and the dark side of the moon. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Such performance is critical for financial institutions and other enterprise applications for which every millisecond of improved latency translates to significant dollars in potential increased profitability. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For you to be happy, these transactions cannot afford a delay -- or what engineers call "latency" -- of more than 150 milliseconds, yet most Internet systems show average delays of 260 to 450 milliseconds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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