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Etymology [ edit ]
latent + -cy
Pronunciation [ edit ]
latency (countable and uncountable , plural latencies )
Concealment ; the state of being latent ; the state of being hidden .
Dormancy ; the state of being inactive .
( electronics ) A delay , an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
( medicine ) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
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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Translations [ edit ]
hiddenness
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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 (zh) , 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 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
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