latent
There is a long latency period between the formation of gallstones and the onset of symptoms.
The prolonged latency of epidural analgesia may be unacceptable in some cases.

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Potential
accident
an accident waiting to happenidiom
auspicious
auspiciously
be an actor, cook, etc. in the makingidiom
commanding
embryo
fertile
latently
making
not be beyond the wit of man/someoneidiom
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potentiality
prospect
prospective
realizable
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room
room for improvementidiom
sleeper

latencynoun[U] (COMPUTING)

computing specialized
the delay between an instruction to transfer(= move) computer information and the information being transferred, for example over the internet:
If there is high latency, messages can take minutes or longer to be delivered.
We found it impossible to hold choir rehearsals online because of problems with latency.
The advantage of this technique is that the client and server can communicate with minimal latency.
High latency is acceptable in applications that do not require real time response.
So the latency between posting an updated version and client detection of that change can be open-ended.
Access latency refers to how fast data can be brought from memory to the cache.

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Examples of latency

latency
Naming latencies departing 3 standard deviations from the participant's mean were also removed.
On each trial, the correctness and latency of the learner's verbal response were assessed.
Because the outcome of the two regression analyses was virtually identical, we will only report the results for the overall end-adjusted latencies.
The main dependent variables are the percentage of correct first choices and the mean latency of the first choices.
Observed latency can be decreased if a synchronisation signal source could foresee the near future in some way.
Consequently, the phonological structure of nonwords remained a significantly important factor in naming latencies.
In other words, once children have become fluent and efficient readers, cross-linguistic differences in naming latencies for similar items disappear.
Specifically, latency of a discriminative response, like probability of generalization, falls off according to a decreasing, concave-upward function of distance between stimuli in representational space.
Eleven out of 22 such pairs had a response latency of 1-3 ms (corrected for conduction time).
Figure 10 presents the decision latency estimations as a function of learning.
They found the mean vocal response latencies to be 420 msec, more than 300 msec after the motor response.
Thus, the drinking latency consisted of the sum of the entering and finding latencies.
This is a challenge for all children, and incongruent trials always produced longer response latencies than congruent trials.
In order to compare the efficiency of the common code paths in both systems, a good measurement is the application to application latency.
For a good latency estimation, the vehicle motions have to be as different as possible from the non observable situations.
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Collocations withlatency

latency

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latency period
The maximum length of infection (t4) is the sum of the latencyperiod and infectious period.
long latency
A second group of cells responded with a longlatency and showed prolonged after-discharges.
low latency
A low latency external soundcard helped address this problem.
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