latency

English

Etymology

latent +‎ -cy

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.tən.si/

Noun

latency (countable and uncountable, plural latencies)

1. The state of being latent.
2. (electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
3. (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
4. 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

Translations

delay

• Chinese:

  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)
• 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)
• Portuguese: latência f
• Romanian: latență (ro)
• Russian: заде́ржка (ru) f (zadéržka)
• Turkish: gecikme (tr), gizlilik (tr), saklılık

delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism

• German: Latenzmechanismus m, Latenz (de), Verzögerung (de) f
• Portuguese: latência f

• Turkish: yataklık süresi

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