Latency

Latency or latent may refer to:

Electronics

• Latency (engineering), a measure of the time delay experienced by a system
  • CAS latency, computer memory latency
  • Latency (audio), the delay necessitated by the conversion between analog and digital representations of sound data

Biology

• Latency period (also latent period), the time between exposure to a pathogen, chemical or radiation, and when symptoms first become apparent
• Virus latency, the ability of a virus to remain dormant
• Sleep onset latency, the time it takes a person to fall asleep

Music

• The Latency, a Canadian pop rock band
• Latent Records, an independent Canadian record label

Other uses

• Latency stage, a term coined by Sigmund Freud for a stage in a child's psychosexual development
• Nuclear latency, the condition of a country capable of developing nuclear weapons but not yet possessing them
• Latent variable, used in statistics to describe variables that are inferred instead of being directly observed.