Hypertext Webster Gateway: "latency"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Latency \La"ten*cy\, n. [See {Latent}.]
The state or quality of being latent.
To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish three
degrees of this latency. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
latency
n 1: (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of
data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write
head [syn: {rotational latency}]
2: the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to
it [syn: {reaction time}, {response time}, {latent period}]
3: the state of being not yet evident or active
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