latency

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Etymology

From latent +‎ -ency.[1]

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  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈleɪ.tən.si/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

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.

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  1. ^ “latency, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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