latency

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈleɪ.tən.si/

Noun

latency (plural latencies)

1. (electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
2. (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.

Synonyms

• lag (casual)

Translations

delay

Czech: latence (cs) f., zpoždění (cs) n. Finnish: latenssi (fi), viive (fi) German: Latenz (de) f., Latenzzeit (de) f., Verborgenheit (de) f., Wartezeit (de) f., Verzögerung (de) f. Greek: υστέρηση (el) f., καθυστέρηση (el) f. Icelandic: biðtími (is) m.

Italian: latenza (it) f. Japanese: レイテンシ (ja) (reitenshi) Romanian: latență (ro) Russian: задержка (ru) (zaderzhka) f. Turkish: gecikme (tr), gizlilik (tr), saklılık (tr)

delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism

German: Latenzmechanismus (de) m., Latenz (de), Verzögerung (de) f.

Turkish: yataklık süresi (tr)