Latency

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  • noun. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being latent or concealed; unobserved or undeveloped existence.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
    • Word Usage
    "For eukaryotes typically the term latency is used."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    interval  potency  potential  potentiality  time interval  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    24-hour  attenuation  bandwidth  ileum  insensitiveness  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abeyance  apathy  catalepsy  catatonia  cold storage  
    variant
    latent period  
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