Latency Definition

lātn-sē
latencies
noun
latencies
The state or quality of being latent.
American Heritage Medicine
The latency period.
American Heritage Medicine
A latent period.
American Heritage Medicine
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.
American Heritage Medicine

(electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.

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Other Word Forms of Latency

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Singular:
latency
Plural:
latencies

Origin of Latency

  • latent +"Ž -cy

    From Wiktionary

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