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latency (countable and uncountable, plural latencies)
- 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.
- (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.
- (state of being latent): hiddenness, invisibility
- lag (not physics- or electronic gaming-related)
- delay
inactivity, dormancy
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- Russian: , латентное состояние n (latentnoje sostojanije), скрытая форма f (skrytaja forma)
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delay
- Bulgarian: закъснение (bg) n (zakǎsnenie)
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- Czech: latence f, zpoždění (cs) n
- Dutch: wachttijd (nl) m, vertraging (nl) f
- Finnish: latenssi (fi), viive (fi)
- French: latence (fr) f
- German: Latenz (de) f, Latenzzeit f, Verborgenheit (de) f, Wartezeit (de) f, Verzögerung (de) f
- Greek: υστέρηση (el) f (ystérisi), καθυστέρηση (el) f (kathystérisi)
- Icelandic: biðtími m
- Italian: latenza (it) f
- Japanese: 遅延 (ja) (chien), レイテンシ (reitenshi), レイテンシー (reitenshī), レーテンシー (rētenshī)
- Persian: نهفتگی (fa)
- Polish: latencja (pl) f
- Portuguese: latência (pt) f
- Romanian: latență (ro)
- Russian: заде́ржка (ru) f (zadéržka)
- Slovak: latencia f, oneskorenie n
- Spanish: latencia (es) f
- Turkish: gecikme (tr), gizlilik (tr), saklılık
delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism