latency

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
noun the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
noun the state of being not yet evident or active

From latent + -ency.

But the poet must likewise understand and command what Bacon calls the vestigia communia of the senses, the latency of all in each, and more especially as by a magical penny duplex, the excitement of vision by sound and the exponents of sound. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Shut Not Your Doors Shut not your doors to me proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill’d shelves, yet needed most, I bring, Forth from the war emerging, a book I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing, A book separate, not link’d with the rest nor felt by the intellect, But you ye untold latencies will thrill to every page. — Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

rotational latency

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