🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

latencia

Pronunciation / Transliteration: laˈtensja

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Latency/ˈleɪ.tən.si/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Debemos reducir la latencia del sistema."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The delay between the initiation of something and its occurrence or receiving a response.

    "High network latency can cause noticeable delays during video calls."
  2. 2

    The state of existing but not yet being manifest or developed; dormancy.

    "The virus can remain in a state of latency for years before showing symptoms."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'latentia', meaning state of lying hidden, from 'latēre' (to lie hidden). In modern technological and physiological contexts, it evolved to describe the delay between a stimulus and the resulting response.

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