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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery