Associations to the word «Latency»

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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King