latency

1. (countable, uncountable)Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.

   скрытостьskrytostʹ, незаметностьnezametnostʹ

2. (countable, uncountable)Dormancy; the state of being inactive.

   латентное состояниеlatentnoje sostojanije, скрытая форма

   the state of being not yet evident or active

3. (countable, uncountable)A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.

   network latency

   Latenz, Latenzzeit, Verborgenheit

   заде́ржкаzadéržka

4. (countable, 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.

   the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it

5. (countable, uncountable)The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.

   period of latency

   The disease has a long period of latency.

   Latenzmechanismus, Latenz, Verzögerung

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.

1. That server has high latency.

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2. This fighting game is beautiful, but nobody will play it because of the atrocious input latency.

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3. Even if you removed every other source of latency in a network, you must contend with the speed of light.

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