Latency

The term latency can refer to multiple concepts:
*Latency (engineering), a time delay between the moment something is initiated, and the moment its first effect begins.
*Latency in child sexuality, a psychoanalytic phase, extending from roughly age seven to twelve, during which sexuality is repressed or sublimated (now more commonly called "middle childhood" and "prepubescence").
*RAM latency, the amount of time a computer needs to wait to get data from RAM.
*Incubation period, the time elapsed between exposure to a pathogenic organism, or chemical or radiation, and when symptoms and signs are first apparent.
*Lag, packet latency over the Internet.