Dictionary

latency en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈleɪ.tən.si/ (UK, US)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From latent + -ency.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
2. (countable, uncountable) Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
3. (countable, uncountable) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
   • network latency
4. (countable, qualifier:artificial intelligence, uncountable) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
5. (countable, uncountable) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
   • The disease has a long period of latency.
   • period of latency
6. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Forms

Antonyms

apparency

Deriveds

antilatency · latency time · intravaginal ejaculation latency time

Synonyms

invisibility (state of being latent) · delay · hiddenness (state of being latent) · lag

Translations (53)

ja 潜伏 (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism) · ja 休眠 (inactivity, dormancy) · la latēntia (delay) · ja レイテンシー (delay) · sk oneskorenie (delay) · tr yataklık süresi (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism) · cs zpoždění (delay) · ru скрытая форма (inactivity, dormancy) · ru латентное состояние (inactivity, dormancy) · pt latência (delay) · el καθυστέρηση (delay) · de Latenzmechanismus (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism) · is biðtími (delay) · de Latenz (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism) · gl latencia (delay) · de Latenz (delay) · nl vertraging (delay) · pl latencja (delay) · de Verzögerung (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism) · de Latenzzeit (delay) · it latenza (delay) · tr gecikme (delay) · hu lappangás (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism) · fa نهفتگی (delay) · cs latence (delay) · fr latence (delay) · ja レイテンシ (delay) · cmn 延遲 /延迟 (delay) · bg закъснение (delay) · pl opóźnienie (delay) · fi viive (delay) · el υστέρηση (delay) · tr gizlilik (delay) · ja レーテンシー (delay) · de Verborgenheit (delay) · es latencia (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism) · nl wachttijd (delay) · ru заде́ржка (delay) · ru незаметность (hiddenness) · sk latencia (delay) · ro latență (delay) · fi latenssi (delay) · tr saklılık (delay) · ru скрытость (hiddenness) · ja 遅延 (delay) · ja 潜在 (hiddenness) · ja 秘匿 (hiddenness) · pt latência (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism) · gl latencia (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism) · es latencia (delay) · de Verzögerung (delay) · de Wartezeit (delay) · hu lappangási idő (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism)