English Dictionary

latency

/ˈleɪ.tən.si/

noun

Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden. / Dormancy; the state of being inactive. / (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.

The latency of the system was intentionally increased to conceal the true response time.

意味（1）

Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.

意味（2）

Dormancy; the state of being inactive.

意味（3）

(electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.

意味（4）

(medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.

意味（5）

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.