Look up: latency

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   Latency
   The amount of time that passes before something starts to happen. An important consideration in performance evaluation, where high throughput computer devices often postpone tranfers due to protocol transaction overhead, contention and other factors.
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   Latency
   Time from the first exposure of a chemical until the appearance of a toxic effect.
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   Latency
   Latency is the technical term for the delays in computer systems caused by both distance and processing. Distance creates latency because of simple physics. Messages travel at the speed of light and over long distances the delays are measurable. Processing creates latency by delaying messages at every instance where a process occurs.
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   latency
   [n] - the state of being not yet evident or active
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   latency
   Time taken for requested data to arrive. A performance indicator in any communications protocol, not directly related to bit rate. Latency in packet networks is affected by techniques such as ARQ, SAW and DSMA. Dirty tricks such as spoofing are sometimes used to improve latency. See also jitter.
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   Latency
   (NETWORK GLOSSARY) The amount of time between when a device requests access to a network and when it is granted permission to transmit.
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   latency
   (communications) 1. The time it takes for a packet to cross a network connection, from sender to receiver. 2. The period of time that a frame is held by a network device before it is forwarded. Two of the most important parameters of a communications channel are its latency, which should be low, and its bandwidth, which should be high. Latency is ...
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   latency
   the period of apparent inactivity between the time when a stimulus is presented and the moment a response occurs Category: Medicine • the time interval between the instant at which an instruction control unit initiates a call for data and the instant at which the actual transfer of the data is started Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • the pe...
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   latency
   (1) In electrophysiology: the time between onset of a stimulus and peak of the ensuing action potential. (2) Of an infection, a period in which the infection is present in the host without producing overt symptoms.
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    Latency
    La'ten·cy noun [ See Latent .] The state or quality of being latent. « To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish three degrees of this latency .» Sir W. Hamilton.
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    latency
    1. <physiology> The time between onset of a stimulus and peak of the ensuing action potential. ... 2. <microbiology> Of an infection, a period in which the infection is present in the host without producing overt symptoms. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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    latency
    noun the state of being not yet evident or active
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    latency
    (la´tәn-se) a state of seeming inactivity or being latent. the time between the instant of stimulation and the beginning of a response. latency stage.
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    Latency
    • (n.) The state or quality of being latent.
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    latency
    latency 1. The state of being not yet evident or active. 2. In computer science, the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head. 3. The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it. 4. With reference to an infection, a period in which the infection is present in the host without prod...
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    latency
    in a muscle, state between the imposition of a stimulus and the onset of development of tension
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    Latency
    (Lat. latere, to be hidden) (a) In metaphysics, the term latency is equivalent to potency or potentiality. See Potentiality. (b) In epistemology and psychology, the term is applied to knowledge, e.g. memory, which lies dormant in the mind but is capable of becoming actual and explicit (see W. Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics, xviii, cited by J. M...
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