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Latency   /lˈeɪtənsi/   Listen
noun
Latency  n.  
1.
The state or quality of being latent. "To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish three degrees of this latency."
2.
The time between a stimulus the appearance of the response; the time between any causal action and the first appearance of the effect. Called also latent period.
3.
Hence: (Med.) The time between exposure to a carcinogen or other disease-causing agent and the appearance of the consequent disease.





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... property of bodies by virtue of which it cannot change its own condition of rest or motion. In other words it is the negative quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient latescence. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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