Latency
Science and technology
- Latent heat, energy released or absorbed, by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature process
- Latent variable, a variable that is not directly observed but inferred in statistics
Biology and medicine
- Latency period or latent period, the time between development of a disease or exposure to a pathogen, chemical, or radiation and when symptoms first become apparent (e.g. latent tumor) or when the disease becomes infectious (e.g. infectious disease)
- Latent homosexuality, a term proposed by Sigmund Freud
- Sleep onset latency, the time it takes a person to fall asleep
- Virus latency, the ability of a virus to remain dormant
Engineering
- Latency (engineering), a measure of the time delay experienced by a system
- Latency (audio), the delay between the moment an audio signal is triggered and the moment it is produced or received
- CAS latency, computer memory latency
- Network latency or network delay, a measure of the time delay required for information to travel across a network
- Rotational latency, the delay waiting for the rotation of the disk to bring the required disk sector under the read-write head
- Mechanical latency
Other uses
- Latency stage, a term coined by Sigmund Freud for a stage in a child's psychosexual development
- Latent Recordings, an independent Canadian record label
- Nuclear latency, the condition of a country capable of developing nuclear weapons but not yet possessing them
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