LATENCY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The state of being not yet evident or active

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("latency" is a kind of...):

potency; potential; potentiality (the inherent capacity for coming into being)

Derivation:

latent ((pathology) not presently active)

Meaning:

The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it

Synonyms:

latency; latent period; reaction time; response time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("latency" is a kind of...):

interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)

Meaning:

(computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head

Synonyms:

latency; rotational latency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("latency" is a kind of...):

interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Holonyms ("latency" is a part of...):

access time ((computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive)