computer science The time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head.

synonym: rotational latency.

Roget 519: unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity^†; inconceivableness, vagueness etc. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity etc. 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty etc. 475; perplexity etc. (confusion) 59; spinosity^†; obscurum per obscurius [Lat.]; mystification etc. (concealment) 528; latency etc. 526; transcendentalism.    paradox, oxymoron; riddle, enigma, puzzle etc. (secret) 533; diagnus vindice nodus [Lat.]; sealed book; steganography^†, freemasonry.    pons asinorum [Lat.], asses' bridge; high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew; jargon etc. (unmeaning) 517.    ... show more

Roget 667: rocks, reefs, coral reef, sunken rocks, snags; sands, quicksands; syrt^†, syrtis^†; Goodwin sands, sandy foundation; slippery ground; breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf, flat, lee shore, ironbound coast; rock ahead, breakers ahead.    precipice; maelstrom, volcano; ambush etc. 530; pitfall, trapdoor; trap etc. (snare) 545.    sword of Damocles; wolf at the door, snake in the grass, death in the pot; latency etc. 526.    ugly customer, dangerous person, le chat qui dort [Fr.]; firebrand, hornet's nest.    ... show more

Roget 533: secret; dead secret, profound secret; arcanum^†, mystery; latency etc. 526; Asian mystery^†; sealed book, secrets of the prison house; le desous des cartes [Fr.].    enigma, riddle, puzzle, nut to crack, conundrum, charade, rebus, logogriph^†; monogram, anagram; Sphinx; crux criticorum [Lat.].    maze, labyrinth, Hyrcynian wood; intricacy, meander.    problem etc. (question) 461; paradox etc. (difficulty) 704; unintelligibility etc. 519; terra incognita etc. (ignorance) 491.    ... show more

Roget 526: latency, inexpression^†; hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness, mystery, cabala^†, anagoge^†; silence etc. (taciturnity) 585; concealment etc. 528; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear; Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes [Fr.], undercurrent.    implication, logical implication; logical consequence; entailment.    allusion, insinuation; innuendo etc. 527; adumbration; something rotten in the state of Denmark" [Hamlet]. snake in the grass etc. (pitfall) 667; secret etc. 533.    darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility.    ... show more

Roget 447: invisibility, invisibleness, nonappearance, imperceptibility; indistinctness etc. adj.; mystery, delitescence^†.    concealment etc. 528; latency etc. 526.    ... show more

Roget 172: inertness, dullness etc. adj.; inertia, vis inertiae [Lat.], inertion^†, inactivity, torpor, languor; quiescence etc. 265; latency, inaction; passivity.    mental inertness; sloth etc. (inactivity) 683; inexcitability etc. 826^†; irresolution etc. 605; obstinacy etc. 606; permanence etc. 141.    rare gas, paraffin, noble metal, unreactivity.    ... show more

Roget 528: concealment; hiding etc. v.; occultation, mystification.    seal of secrecy; screen etc. 530; disguise etc. 530; masquerade; masked battery; hiding place etc. 530; cryptography, steganography^†; freemasonry.    stealth, stealthiness, sneakiness; obreption^†; slyness etc. (cunning) 702.    latitancy^†, latitation^†; seclusion etc. 893; privacy, secrecy, secretness^†; incognita.    reticence; reserve; mental reserve, reservation; arriere pensee [Fr.], suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence etc. (taciturnity) 585; suppression of truth etc. 544; underhand dealing; closeness, secretiveness etc. adj.; mystery.    latency etc. 526; snake in the grass; secret etc. 533; stowaway.    ... show more

The time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it.

synonyms: latent period, reaction time, response time.

The state of being not yet evident or active.

Polish: latencja