| 单词 | latency |
| 释义 | latency (once / 44941 pages) n Latency is a noun referring to something inactive, dormant, or lying in wait. It’s the state of not being visibly active yet — like when you're hiding out and waiting to jump up and yell "Surprise!" Perhaps a little late, perhaps right on time, latency will wake up from its nap eventually. For a characteristic or skill to be in a period of latency, it does have to exist. So you should only use latency to describe your pitching ability if there is a fastball in you somewhere – otherwise, just admit you can’t pitch. If you’re in the lab, latency is also used to describe the period between a stimulus and a response. WORD FAMILYlatency: latencies+/latent: latency, latenter, latently USAGE EXAMPLESThe Translate team began to conduct latency experiments on a small percentage of users, in the form of faked delays, to identify tolerance. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) Cable partisans are already firing back preemptively, insisting that wired will always beat wireless in picture quality, latency, speed. Wall Street Journal(Oct 25, 2016) “Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time.” Wall Street Journal(Oct 21, 2016) 1n the state of being not yet evident or active Hyper potency, potential, potentiality the inherent capacity for coming into being 2n the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it Syn|Hyper latent period, reaction time, response time interval, time interval a definite length of time marked off by two instants 3n (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head Syn|Hyper rotational latency interval, time interval a definite length of time marked off by two instants |
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