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noun

Latency n.

The state or quality of being latent. "To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish three degrees of this latency."

The time between a stimulus the appearance of the response; the time between any causal action and the first appearance of the effect. Called also latent period.

Hence: (Med.) The time between exposure to a carcinogen or other disease-causing agent and the appearance of the consequent disease.

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Etymology of 'Latency'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Latency" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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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