latency.
Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
Meaning & usage
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.
network latency
The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
period of latency
The disease has a long period of latency.
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.
Where this word comes from
From latent + -ency.
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