latency

1. Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden. (countable, uncountable)
2. Dormancy; the state of being inactive. (countable, uncountable)
3. A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence. (countable, uncountable) · network latency
4. The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance. (countable, uncountable)
5. The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism. (countable, uncountable) · period of latency· The disease has a long period of latency.
6. 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. (countable, uncountable)

Plural latencies