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

The disease is in latency in her body.
Girls in the latency phase are well cuddly.
For eukaryotes typically the term latency is used.
Even when it works, network latency is usually awful.
On the contrary, the latency is guaranteed to increase.
Lower temperature increases the latency of the disease.
The downside is extra latency from computing the hash function.
If latency is 4 seconds, your explanation would read like this:
Latency results from the methods used to encode and decode the data.
The latency is simply the round-trip time for a trivial calculation.
Latency is the time between the start of a process and its completion.
Message latency is generally measured in days, but security is absolute.
Access to the streaming cache is pipelined to mitigate some of the latency.
One advantage of this is the reduced latency of hubs in contrast to switches.
[12], we will reserve the term latency (L) to an unobserved hypothetical time.
Interleaving can also increase the robustness of the line but increases latency.
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.