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Latency
01
a state where a quality or trait exists but is not actively expressed at the moment
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Compound
Uncountable
Examples
In education, a student's talent might have latency, becoming more apparent as they progress through advanced coursework.
02
the time interval between the presentation of a stimulus and the observable response to it
Examples
The experiment measured the latency of a reflex action.
03
(in computer science) the time required for a specific block of data on a storage medium to reach the read and write head
Examples
The hard drive has a latency of 8 milliseconds per read.
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