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Latency   /lˈeɪtənsi/   Listen
Latency

noun
1.
(computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head.  Synonym: rotational latency.
2.
The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it.  Synonyms: latent period, reaction time, response time.
3.
The state of being not yet evident or active.



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"Latency" Quotes from Famous Books



... of sexual excitement in the new-born develop for a time, then undergo a progressive suppression in a period of partial or complete sexual latency. During this period, which is normally interrupted at about the third or fourth year, as result of organic evolutionary processes and the indispensable help of education, those mental forces are formed which appear later as inhibitions to the sexual instinct and narrow its course like ...
— Studies in Forensic Psychiatry • Bernard Glueck
... of events, grandfather," she said, looking out of the window with that drowsy latency of manner which discovered so much force behind it whenever the ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy


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