latency

English

Etymology

latent +‎ -cy

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.tən.si/

Noun

latency (countable and uncountable, plural latencies)

1. Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
2. Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
3. (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
4. (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
5. 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

• (state of being latent): hiddenness, invisibility
• lag (not physics- or electronic gaming-related)
• delay

Derived terms

• intravaginal ejaculation latency time

Translations

hiddenness

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• Russian: , скрытость (ru) f (skrytostʹ), незаметность (ru) f (nezametnostʹ)
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inactivity, dormancy

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• Russian: , латентное состояние n (latentnoje sostojanije), скрытая форма f (skrytaja forma)
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delay

• Bulgarian: закъснение (bg) n (zakǎsnenie)
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  Mandarin: 延遲／延迟 (zh) (yánchí)

• Czech: latence f, zpoždění (cs) n
• Dutch: wachttijd (nl) m, vertraging (nl) f
• Finnish: latenssi (fi), viive (fi)
• French: latence (fr) f
• German: Latenz (de) f, Latenzzeit f, Verborgenheit (de) f, Wartezeit (de) f, Verzögerung (de) f
• Greek: υστέρηση (el) f (ystérisi), καθυστέρηση (el) f (kathystérisi)
• Icelandic: biðtími m
• Italian: latenza (it) f
• Japanese: レイテンシ (reitenshi), レイテンシー (reitenshī), レーテンシー (rētenshī)
• Persian: نهفتگی (fa)
• Polish: latencja (pl) f
• Portuguese: latência (pt) f
• Romanian: latență (ro)
• Russian: заде́ржка (ru) f (zadéržka)
• Slovak: latencia f, oneskorenie n
• Spanish: latencia (es) f
• Turkish: gecikme (tr), gizlilik (tr), saklılık

delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism

• German: Latenzmechanismus m, Latenz (de), Verzögerung (de) f
• Hungarian: lappangás (hu), lappangási idő (hu)
• Portuguese: latência (pt) f
• Spanish: latencia (es) f
• Turkish: yataklık süresi

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