[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

latency \la"tency\, n. see latent.
   1. the state or quality of being latent.
      1913 webster

            to simplify the discussion, i shall distinguish
            three degrees of this latency.        --sir w.
                                                  hamilton.
      1913 webster

   2. the time between a stimulus the appearance of the
      response; the time between any causal action and the first
      appearance of the effect. called also latent period.
      pjc

   3. hence: med. the time between exposure to a carcinogen or
      other disease-causing agent and the appearance of the
      consequent disease.
      pjc
see also:
latent latent period 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

latency
     n 1: computer science the time it takes for a specific block of
          data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write
          head syn: rotational latency
     2: the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to
        it syn: reaction time, response time, latent period
     3: the state of being not yet evident or active
see also:
rotational latency reaction time response time latent period 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

37 moby thesaurus words for "latency":
   abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cold storage, deadliness,
   deathliness, delitescence, doldrums, dormancy, entropy,
   indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, intermission,
   interruption, languor, latent content, latent meaningfulness,
   latentness, lotus-eating, passiveness, passivity, possibility,
   potentiality, quiescence, quiescency, stagnancy, stagnation,
   stasis, suspense, suspension, torpor, vegetation, virtuality,
   vis inertiae

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

latency
     
         1. 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
     
     
see also:
packet bandwidth synchronous protocol 

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