Usually means: Time delay between cause, effect.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. latency: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. latency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. latency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. latency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. latency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Latency, latency: Wordnik
  7. latency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. latency: Wiktionary
  9. latency: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. latency: Dictionary.com
  11. Latency (audio), Latency (disambiguation), Latency (engineering), Latency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Latency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. latency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. latency: Rhymezone
  15. Latency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. latency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. latency: Free Dictionary
  18. latency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. latency: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. latency: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. latency: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. latency: Netlingo
  3. Latency, latency: CCI Computer
  4. Latency: Game Dictionary
  5. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  6. latency: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  7. Latency: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  8. Latency: Linktionary Networking Glossary
  9. Webopedia (No longer online)
  10. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Technopedia (No longer online)
  12. Latency (engineering), latency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  6. Latency: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Latency: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. latency: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  4. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
noun:  Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
noun:  (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
noun:  (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
noun:  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.

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