Latency
nounid
3113·updated May 12, 2026candidate
The time it takes a system and network delay to respond Scope Note: More specifically, system latency is the time that a system takes to retrieve data. Network latency is the time it takes for a packet to travel from the source to the final destination.
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Sensitivity
—95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
—95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- synonym
- latent periodreaction timeresponse timerotational latency
- plural
- Latencies
- possessive
- Latency's
- pluralpossessive
- Latencies'
Framework definitions
- §1
- The time it takes a system and network delay to respond Scope Note: More specifically, system latency is the time that a system takes to retrieve data. Network latency is the time it takes for a packet to travel from the source to the final destination.
- §1
- the state of being not yet evident or active
- §2
- the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
- §3
- (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
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