latency
Latency , adj. latent (from Latin latere , to be hidden) stands for:
- the latency or delay time - that is the period between a hidden event and the occurrence of a visible response,
- Latency (medicine) temporary concealment of an illness, symptom-free time (according to Pschyrembel)
Technology:
- the transit time of a signal in a technical system, see signal transit time
- Delay (telecommunications)
- Memory latency , also CAS Latency , the response time of RAM memory modules; see Column Address Strobe Latency
- Delay (music) , an intentional or unintentional delay in running time in music production
Humanities:
- Latency (psychology) Delay in psychosexual development or in the manifestation of socio-psychological phenomena according to Sigmund Freud's development scheme
- Latency (philosophy) , possibilities dormant in the given, cf. Latency tendency utopia ( Ernst Bloch )
- Latency (politics) , a well-defined term in sociology since Merton and Parsons, cf. here most likely AGIL scheme
- Latency (Max Weber) rather accidental term from the psychophysics of industrial work (in: Writings on sociology and social policy)
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Wiktionary: latency - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: latent - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
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- Latent heat , the amount of thermal energy absorbed or released during a first-order phase transition
- Latent heat storage
- Multiple sleep latency test , a method used in sleep medicine
- Delay (disambiguation)