Latency Definition

lātn-sē
latencies
noun
latencies
The state or quality of being latent.
American Heritage Medicine
The latency period.
American Heritage Medicine
A latent period.
American Heritage Medicine
The time interval between initiating a query, transmission, or process, and receiving or detecting the results, often given as an average value over a large number of events.
American Heritage Medicine

(electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.

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Other Word Forms of Latency

Noun

Singular:
latency
Plural:
latencies

Origin of Latency

  • latent +"Ž -cy

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Latency Sentence Examples

  • A few seconds of extra latency on the data network will likely go unnoticed; but, on the voice network it can cause anarchy!

  • Most wireless options i`ve seen are fairly broadband anyway (altho quite high latency) There WAS a wireless telecom company.

  • Recurrence-The return of an active infection following a period of latency.

  • The doctrine of latency is mystical and savours of Plato's reminiscence (anamnesis).

  • Often enough it is video cards that have high default latency timer values, to look better in benchmarks.

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