Meaning of LATENCY
| Pronunciation: | | 'leytnsee
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| Matching Terms: | | latence, latency period, latency phase, latency stage
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| | Definition: | | 1. The time it takes for a packet to cross a network connection, from sender to receiver. 2. The period of time that a frame is held by a network device before it is forwarded. Two of the most important parameters of a communications channel are its latency, which should be low, and its bandwidth, which should be high. Latency is particularly important for a synchronous protocol where each packet must be acknowledged before the next can be transmitted. |
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| | Related Terms: | | abeyance, apathy, catalepsy, catatonia, cold storage, deadliness, deathliness, delitescence, doldrums, dormancy, entropy, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, intermission, interruption, languor, latent content, latent meaningfulness, latentness, lotus-eating, passiveness, passivity, possibility, potentiality, quiescence, quiescency, stagnancy, stagnation, stasis, suspense, suspension, torpor, vegetation, virtuality, vis inertiae |
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