latency
Meaning
- 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
latent period
latence
rotational latency
waiting time
latent condition
standby time
time lag
queueing time
lag time
latency time
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈleɪ.tən.si/
Etymology
From latent + -cy.
Bookmark this
'%3e%3c/path%3e%3c/g%3e%3cdefs%3e%3cmarker%20markerWidth='4.5'%20markerHeight='4.5'%20refX='2.25'%20refY='2.25'%20viewBox='0%200%204.5%204.5'%20orient='auto'%20id='SvgjsMarker4023'%3e%3cpolygon%20points='0,4.5%201.5,2.25%200,0%204.5,2.25'%20fill='white'%3e%3c/polygon%3e%3c/marker%3e%3c/defs%3e%3c/svg%3e)
Start learning English with learnfeliz.
Practice speaking and memorizing "latency" and many other words and sentences in English.
Go to our English course page
Notes
