Latency

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1. Noun

The state or quality of being latent.

2. Noun

The amount of time a system takes to respond.

The delay between initiating an operation and receiving its response.

“Lower latency improved the video call.”

3. 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
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