latency
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It's a small amount of data, so having a fat pipe isn't important, but you care desperately that the latency is as low as possible so that it gets there quickly in case your heart stops first.
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- noun The state or quality of being latent.
- noun Psychology The latency period.
- noun A latent period.
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- The smoke and flames were easily visible beneath the firing tubes, even at six hundred yards, and then, with appalling suddenness, the missiles leaped into the air. — Sharpe's Enemy
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It's a small amount of data, so having a fat pipe isn't important, but you care desperately that the latency is as low as possible so that it gets there quickly in case your heart stops first.
— GigaOM -
For a typical Ethernet connection the latency is usually about 0. 3ms (milliseconds -- thousandths of a second).
— Ryan Tomayko -
For a typical modem link the latency is usually about 100ms, about 300 times worse than Ethernet.
— Ryan Tomayko - They were apparently put into silver collars as soon as their latency was detected, without consideration of any adverse mental consequences. " — The Golden Torc
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- from laten (t) + -cy.
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/ (lātˈn-sē)/
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