noun
- plural of latency; delays between a cause and its effect, or periods of inactivity
Usage: technical; computing
Examples
- Network latencies can cause video calls to freeze.
- The system experienced high latencies during peak usage.
- Reducing latencies improved the application’s performance.
- Memory latencies affect computer processing speed.
- The engineer measured latencies between server requests.
- Multiple latencies in the pipeline slowed production.