latency   (Sound)

The noun latency has 3 senses

• rotational latency, 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)


• reaction time, response time, latency, latent period -- (the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it)


• latency -- (the state of being not yet evident or active)