latency

Meanings

Plural: latencies

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
• the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
• the state of being not yet evident or active
• Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
• Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
• A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
• 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

delay, hiddenness, invisibility, lag, latent period, reaction time, response time, rotational latency

Antonyms

apparency