latency

IPA: ɫˈeɪtʌnsi

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.

Examples of "latency" in Sentences

For eukaryotes typically the term latency is used.
Even when it works, network latency is usually awful.
If latency is 4 seconds, your explanation would read like this:
The latency is simply the round-trip time for a trivial calculation.
Message latency is generally measured in days, but security is absolute.
[12], we will reserve the term latency (L) to an unobserved hypothetical time.
I have also heard that with newer software packages that the latency is minimized.
Latency would be another result of this — but latency is rarely an issue for file sharing, of course.