latency

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
2. 2
   Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
3. 3
   A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
4. 4
   The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
5. 5
   The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
6. 6
   A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.