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Latency
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Example Sentences
- It definitely does not establish latency in either the liver or the lungs.
- For starters, latency depends on bandwidth: for a given bit rate a large file will have higher latency than a smaller file.
- Try explaining a multi-year latency to a religious denier.
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World English Dictionary
| latent (ˈleɪtənt) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | potential but not obvious or explicit |
| 2. | (of buds, spores, etc) dormant |
| 3. | pathol (esp of an infectious disease) not yet revealed or manifest |
| 4. | (of a virus) inactive in the host cell, its nucleic acid being integrated into, and replicated with, the host cell's DNA |
| 5. | psychoanal Compare manifest relating to that part of a dream expressive of repressed desires: latent content |
| [C17: from Latin latēnt-, from latens present participle of latēre to lie hidden] | |
| 'latency | |
| —n | |
| 'latently | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
latency
1630s, "condition of being concealed," from latent. Meaning "delay between stimulus and response" is from 1882; computer sense (latency time) is from 1954.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
latency la·ten·cy (lāt'n-sē)
n.
The state of being latent.
In conditioning, the period of apparent inactivity between the time the stimulus is presented and the moment a response occurs.
See latency phase.
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Computing Dictionary
latency definition
communications1. The time it takes for a packet to cross a network connection, from sender to receiver.
2. The period of time that a frame is held by a network device before it is forwarded.
Two of the most important parameters of a communications channel are its latency, which should be low, and its bandwidth, which should be high. Latency is particularly important for a synchronous protocol where each packet must be acknowledged before the next can be transmitted.
(2000-02-27)
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