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)

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