latency
English
Noun
latency (countable and uncountable, plural latencies)
- The state of being latent.
- (electronics) A delay, a period 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.
Synonyms
- (state of being latent): hiddenness, invisibility
- lag (not physics- or electronic gaming-related)
- delay
Translations
delay
delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism
|
|
Anagrams
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.