Delay vs. Latency — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Delay and Latency
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Delay
Make (someone or something) late or slow
The train was delayed
Latency
The state or quality of being latent.
Delay
A period of time by which something is late or postponed
A two-hour delay
Long delays in obtaining passports
Latency
(Psychology) The latency period.
Delay
To postpone until a later time; defer.
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Latency
A latent period.
Delay
To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired
Heavy traffic delayed us.
Latency
The time interval between initiating a query, transmission, or process, and receiving or detecting the results, often given as an average value over a large number of events.
Delay
To act or move slowly; put off an action or a decision.
Latency
Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
Delay
The act of delaying; postponement
Responded without delay.
Latency
Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
Delay
The condition of being delayed; detainment.
Latency
(electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
Delay
The period of time during which one is delayed.
Latency
(medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
Delay
The interval of time between two events.
Latency
A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
Delay
A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
The delay before the echo of a sound
Latency
The state or quality of being latent.
To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish three degrees of this latency.
Delay
(music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
Latency
The time between a stimulus the appearance of the response; the time between any causal action and the first appearance of the effect. Called also latent period.
Delay
Synonym of promise
Latency
The time between exposure to a carcinogen or other disease-causing agent and the appearance of the consequent disease.
Delay
(chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
Latency
(computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
Delay
(ambitransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
Latency
The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
Delay
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
Latency
The state of being not yet evident or active
Delay
To allay; to temper.
Delay
(obsolete) To dilute, temper.
Delay
(obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.
Delay
A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat.
The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.
Delay
To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
My lord delayeth his coming.
Delay
To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayedThe huddling brook to hear his madrigal.
Delay
To allay; to temper.
The watery showers delay the raging wind.
Delay
To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten.
Delay
Time during which some action is awaited;
Instant replay caused too long a delay
He ordered a hold in the action
Delay
The act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
Delay
Cause to be slowed down or delayed;
Traffic was delayed by the bad weather
She delayed the work that she didn't want to perform
Delay
Act later than planned, scheduled, or required;
Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered
Delay
Stop or halt;
Please stay the bloodshed!
Delay
Slow the growth or development of;
The brain damage will retard the child's language development
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