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• n  (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
• n  the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
• n  the state of being not yet evident or active

• At the time, most doctors with HIV-positive patients held off using powerful but highly toxic AIDS drugs during the early, "latency" period of the disease, when the virus was .
• Part of the reason the disease is complicated to control is its long latency.
• Miami Psychiatrist James Parsons, for example, actively opposes any sex education in primary schools because "there is a latency period, between the age of six and the time of .

• rotational latency
• reaction time
• response time
• latent period

News & Articles

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• Selerity Launches Low Latency Earnings Date Announcements for Automated Equity Options Traders
  Machine-readable earnings date announcements event data on more than 3,000 US public corporations is now available to automated equity options traders via low latency data feed; marks significant expansion of Selerity’s low latency corporate actions offering. (PRWeb June 17, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10824188.htm
  June 17, 2013 - PRWeb
• Leading derivatives industry executive to head Celoxica’s new business development in the US
  Celoxica, a leading provider of ultra low latency market data, order entry and pre-trade risk solutions for automated trading firms and brokers, today announced the hire of Diane S
  June 17, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• GuavaTech, Inc. Announces CBOE Futures Exchange Hosting and Connectivity Access at London LD4 Co-Location Facility
  GuavaTech Inc.’s Industry-Proven Global HFT Network Offers Low Latency Connectivity to More than 100 ECNs, Banks, Liquidity Pools, and International Exchanges (PRWeb June 17, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10833060.htm
  June 17, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Michael Hayden in Reuters South Africa
  You've got this nexus now that probably was always there in latency but is now active: a nexus between al-Qaeda and various extremist and separatist groups,Hayden said in the interview.
• Andy Bechtolsheim in MarketWatch
  The new era of cloud computing requires fundamental improvements in capacity, latency, and cost-performance over existing enterprise network solutions,said Bechtolsheim. "Arista is developing highly scalable, reliable and cost-effective...
• Juan Cole in New York Times
  Nuclear latency has all the advantages of actual possession of a bomb without any of the unpleasant consequences, of the sort North Korea is suffering,Mr. Cole wrote.