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Definition of latency:

  • (noun) the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it

Sentence Examples:

Systematic latency of flower colors.

He's swallowed the latency hypothesis whole.

Latency is often closely connected with correlated variations.

Brown departed she had entered her latency period.

This may be called the ordinary type of latency.

While in this stage of latency it is difficult to destroy.

This period between infancy and puberty is known as the latency period.

Each of them is quite evident and easily understood on the principle of latency.

Otherwise, in place of remaining in latency, they would assert themselves like men.

The poet is one who has detected this latency of power in every breast.

There is no absolute charge of matter with one fluid; no latency of a single electricity.

We come now to those cases of latency in which this obvious correlation does not occur.

The second phase we call the latency period and occupies the second five years of life.

Latency, from this point of view, must be one of the most common things in nature.