latency

Meaning of latency

noun
  1. The state of being latent.
  2. A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
  3. 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.

Information about latency

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of latency is: latencies.
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Hyphenation of latency

la-tency

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • latency is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

latency synonyms

Meaning :

hiddenness, invisibility, delay, lag

Translation of latency

Words that rhyme with latency

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