LATENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does latency mean? 

• LATENCY (noun)
  The noun LATENCY has 3 senses:

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

2. the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it

3. the state of being not yet evident or active

  Familiarity information: LATENCY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LATENCY (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

latency; rotational latency

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

latency; latent period; reaction time; response time

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

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

Sense 3

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)

 Context examples 

Specifically designed to detect recently infected individuals during the latency period before seroconversion.

(Nucleic Acid Amplification Test, NCI Thesaurus)

Lysosomal Function Induction involves initiation of activities of diverse glycoprotein hydrolytic enzymes, active at acid pH, with structure-linked latency, and stored in single unit membrane-bound and morphologically heterogeneous cytoplasmic vesicles.

(Lysosomal Function Induction, NCI Thesaurus)

Long latency to emerge into familiar environment (12/12 males, 10/12 females) (Harrington 1971a).

(IR, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Viral nuclear antigen expressed in latency

(Epstein Barr Nuclear Antigen 3, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus in the family retroviridae consisting of exogenous horizontally transmitted viruses found in mammals; associated with B or T cell leukemia/lymphoma with a long latency.

(Deltaretrovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

A class of morphologically heterogeneous cytoplasmic membrane-bound vesicle in animal and plant tissues characterized by their content of a wide variety of glycoprotein hydrolytic enzymes active at an acid pH and the structure-linked latency of these enzymes.

(Lysosome, NCI Thesaurus)

Lysosomal Function Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, the activities of diverse glycoprotein hydrolytic enzymes, active at acid pH, with structure-linked latency, and stored in single unit membrane-bound and morphologically heterogeneous cytoplasmic vesicles.

(Lysosomal Function Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

They extracted pertinent information from publications meeting predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria to explore the effects of water-based passive body heating on a number of sleep-related conditions: sleep onset latency—the length of time it takes to accomplish the transition from full wakefulness to sleep; total sleep time; sleep efficiency—the amount of time spent asleep relative to the total amount of time spent in bed intended for sleep; and subjective sleep quality.

(Bathing 90 minutes before bedtime can improve sleep quality, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)