Latency or latent may refer to:
Engineering
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Latency (engineering)
Latency, from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed. Lag, as it is known in gaming circles, refers to the latency between the input to a simulation and ...
, a measure of the time delay experienced by a system
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Latency (audio)
Latency refers to a short period of delay (usually measured in milliseconds) between when an audio signal enters a system and when it emerges. Potential contributors to latency in an audio system include analog-to-digital conversion, buffering, ...
, the delay between the moment an audio signal is triggered and the moment it is produced or received
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Mechanical latency
Music
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The Latency, a Canadian pop rock band
See also
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