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Latency

noun

(computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head. Synonym: rotational latency.

The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it. Synonyms: latent period, reaction time, response time.

The state of being not yet evident or active.

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... strength in that alone: latent thought and valour, content to lie latent, then burst out as in blaze of Heaven's lightning! Napoleon lived in an age when God was no longer believed; the meaning of all Silence, Latency, was thought to be Nonentity: he had to begin not out of the Puritan Bible, but out of poor Sceptical Encyclopedies. This was the length the man carried it. Meritorious to get so far. His compact, ...

— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle

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