latency

Other forms of latency

plural

latencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about latency

What does latency mean?

latency means "(computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in latency?

latency has 3 syllables: la-ten-cy. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˈleɪtənsi/.

What is another word for latency?

Close synonyms include rotational latency, reaction time, response time, latent period. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is latency a common word?

latency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.