latency
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
A dormant state in which a pathogen persists without producing active disease.
Herpesviruses establish lifelong latency in sensory ganglia and reactivate under stress.
Business noun
The delay between a request and the corresponding response or data update.
The reporting latency was a full day, so the trading desk was always acting on stale numbers.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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