Definitions for latency

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latency la·ten·cy

Spelling: [leyt-n-see]

IPA: /ˈleɪt n si/

Latency is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 191 anagrams from letters in latency (acelnty).

Definitions for latency

noun

1. the state of being latent.
2. latent period.
3. Computers. the period of delay when one component of a hardware system is waiting for an action to be executed by another component.
4. Digital Technology. the time required online or in a network for the one-way or round-trip transfer of data between two nodes.
5. Digital Technology. (in virtual reality and other types of simulation) the discrepancy between the time delay of stimulus and response in the simulation as compared to the real-world equivalent.

Origin of latency

First recorded in 1630-40; lat(ent) + -ency

Examples for latency

Argument:—The incomprehensible nature of God, expressed by indefinite predicates, and his latency in the works of creation.

They remain stored up in latency and are ready to spring into activity as soon as the depths of the mind are probed.

There is no absolute charge of matter with one fluid; no latency of a single electricity.

His illustrations show that by activity he meant essentially presence, by latency absence from the visible soma.

The pineal gland and the pituitary body are adjuncts of the brain whose functions have long been in latency.

And thus it is that every Idealist, bleak and wintry as his mood may be, is conscious of the latency of spring.

A period of latency may result when the extension of the morbid process is thus hindered.

The hypothesis of latency which thus meets us in limine in this inquiry will soon be found inadequate to cover the facts.

I shall now give an account of my experiments in the period of latency and the summation of stimuli.

The poet is one who has detected this latency of power in every breast.