Latency

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Latency or latent may refer to:

  • Latency period (also latent period or incubation period), the time between exposure to a pathogen, chemical or radiation, and when symptoms first become apparent
  • Latency stage, a term coined by Sigmund Freud for a stage in a child's psychosexual development
  • Latency (audio), the delay necessitated by the conversion between analog and digital representations of sound data
  • Latency (engineering), a measure of the time delay experienced by a system
  • CAS latency, computer memory latency
  • Nuclear latency, the condition of a country capable of developing nuclear weapons but not yet possessing them
  • The Latency, a Canadian pop rock band
  • Sleep onset latency, the time it takes a person to fall asleep
  • Virus latency, the ability of a virus to remain dormant
  • Latent Records, an independent Canadian record label
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