latency
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
latency (countable and uncountable, plural latencies)
- Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
- (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- (medicine) 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[edit]
- (state of being latent): hiddenness, invisibility
- lag (not physics- or electronic gaming-related)
- delay
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
inactivity, dormancy
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delay
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delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism
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Anagrams[edit]
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leh₂- (concealed)
- English terms suffixed with -cy
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
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