Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Latency \La"ten*cy\, n. [See {Latent}.]
     1. The state or quality of being latent.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish
              three degrees of this latency.        --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The time between a stimulus the appearance of the
        response; the time between any causal action and the first
        appearance of the effect. Called also {latent period}.
        [PJC]
  
     3. Hence: (Med.) The time between exposure to a carcinogen or
        other disease-causing agent and the appearance of the
        consequent disease.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  latency
      n 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 [syn: {rotational latency}]
      2: the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to
         it [syn: {reaction time}, {response time}, {latent
         period}]
      3: the state of being not yet evident or active

From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:

  latency [leitənsiː]
     Wartezeit
  

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