latent period

What does latent period mean?

latent period means "the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for latent period?

Close synonyms include reaction time, response time, latency. 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 latent period a common word?

latent period is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for latent period come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.