latency

plural latencies · alternative obsolete latence

1. countableuncountableConcealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.

   Synonyms: hiddenness, invisibility

2. countableuncountableDormancy; the state of being inactive.
3. countableuncountablebusinessA delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.

   network latency

4. countableuncountableartificial intelligenceThe time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
5. countableuncountablemedicineThe delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.

   period of latency

   1 more example

   The disease has a long period of latency.

6. countableuncountableA 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.