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latency

[leyt-n-see] / ˈleɪt n si /


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Latency can drop to as low as 2-12ms, compared to 8-74ms through the traditional display pipeline.

From The Verge • Jun. 22, 2022

Latency will be described in more detail below.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Latency — the delay between a live action and when it’s received — barely affects an office meeting, but it can be deadly to the subtle, split-second interactions of musicians working together.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2020

Before we’re shepherded into the cavernous Zero Latency area, one of my Japanese teammates mentions he has little interest in games that don’t predate the 1986 Famicom.

From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2018

Latency in one generation, with activity in the next, is frequently observed in the transmission of disease; but in the case of crime, as distinguished from vice, this is rarely so.

From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by Kayll, James Leslie Allan




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