noun Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
noun Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
noun A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
network latency
noun The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
noun The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
period of latency
noun 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.