Associations to the word «Latency»
Noun
- Throughput
- Bandwidth
- Tcp
- Cache
- Rem
- Amplitude
- Onset
- Interrupt
- Conduction
- Cas
- Lag
- Packet
- Stimulation
- Cpu
- Stimulus
- Ethernet
- Reflex
- Flick
- Startup
- Congestion
- Router
- Puberty
- Delay
- Recurrence
- Neuron
- Processor
- Routing
- Implication
- Buffer
- Insomnia
- Server
- Connectivity
- Protocol
- Potential
- Cortex
- Utilization
- Queue
- Perturbation
- Response
- Switching
- Audio
- Hardware
- Activation
- Reliability
- Networking
- Duration
- Syphilis
- Virus
- Atm
- Node
- Playback
- Lymph
- Threshold
- Redundancy
- Freud
- Timing
- Kernel
- Low
- Decrease
- Compression
- Processing
- Asbestos
- Replication
- Controller
- Slowing
- Eyewitness
- Axon
- Ping
- Midi
- Lat
Adjective
Wiktionary
LATENCY, noun. The state of being latent.
LATENCY, noun. (electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
LATENCY, noun. (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
LATENCY, noun. 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.
Dictionary definition
LATENCY, 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.
LATENCY, noun. The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it.
LATENCY, noun. The state of being not yet evident or active.
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.