latency

English

latent +‎ -cy

latency (countable and uncountable, plural latencies)

Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
(electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
(medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
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.

hiddenness

inactivity, dormancy

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Russian: , латентное состояние n (latentnoje sostojanije), скрытая форма f (skrytaja forma)
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delay

Bulgarian: закъснение (bg) n (zakǎsnenie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 延遲／延迟 (zh) (yánchí)
Czech: latence f, zpoždění (cs) n
Dutch: wachttijd (nl) m, vertraging (nl) f
Finnish: latenssi (fi), viive (fi)
French: latence (fr) f
German: Latenz (de) f, Latenzzeit f, Verborgenheit (de) f, Wartezeit (de) f, Verzögerung (de) f
Greek: υστέρηση (el) f (ystérisi), καθυστέρηση (el) f (kathystérisi)
Icelandic: biðtími m
Italian: latenza (it) f
Japanese: レイテンシ (reitenshi), レイテンシー (reitenshī), レーテンシー (rētenshī)
Persian: نهفتگی‎ (fa)
Polish: latencja (pl) f
Portuguese: latência f
Romanian: latență (ro)
Russian: заде́ржка (ru) f (zadéržka)
Slovak: latencia f, oneskorenie n
Spanish: latencia (es) f
Turkish: gecikme (tr), gizlilik (tr), saklılık

delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism