latence

Noun

latency (countable and uncountable, plural latencies)

1. Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.

   Synonyms:

   hiddenness, invisibility

2. Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
3. A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
   • network latency
4. (artificial intelligence) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
5. The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
   • period of latency
6. 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.