latency

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nounabeyance

Synonyms for latency

noun abeyance

Antonyms for latency

continuation

abeyancy

noun. abeyance

dormancy

noun. abeyance

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noun. avoidance of attention

Word Origin & History

1630s, "condition of being concealed," from latent + -cy. Meaning "delay between stimulus and response" is from 1882; computer sense (latency time) is from 1954.

Example Sentences for latency

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

A period of latency may result when the extension of the morbid process is thus hindered.

The hypothesis of latency which thus meets us in limine in this inquiry will soon be found inadequate to cover the facts.

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

I shall now give an account of my experiments in the period of latency and the summation of stimuli.

His illustrations show that by activity he meant essentially presence, by latency absence from the visible soma.

The pineal gland and the pituitary body are adjuncts of the brain whose functions have long been in latency.

They remain stored up in latency and are ready to spring into activity as soon as the depths of the mind are probed.

Argument:—The incomprehensible nature of God, expressed by indefinite predicates, and his Latency in the works of creation.

And thus it is that every Idealist, bleak and wintry as his mood may be, is conscious of the latency of spring.

latency

Synonyms for latency

Antonyms for latency

abeyancy

dormancy

intermission

interruption

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latency

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