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| Main Entry: |
latency
 [leyt-n-see] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abeyance |
| Synonyms: | abeyancy, discontinuation, dormancy, inactivity, intermission, postponement, quiescence, recess, remission, suspension, temporarily deferred, waiting |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | abeyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being inactive or suspended |
| Synonyms: | discontinuation, dormancy, inactivity, intermission, latency, postponement, quiescence, recess, remission, suspension, temporarily deferred, waiting |
| Antonyms: | action, activity, continuance, continuation, operation, renewal, revival |
| Main Entry: | intermission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, recess |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, abeyancy, break-off, breather, breathing spell, cessation, doldrums, dormancy, downtime, interim, interlude, interregnum, interruption, interval, latency, layoff, let-up, lull, parenthesis, pause, quiescence, quiescency, respite, rest, spell, stop, stoppage, suspense, suspension, time, time-out, wait |
Example Sentences
- The use of torture would aid latency while damaging all the others.
- The latency cannot be less than the distance the electromagnetic signal has to travel divided by the speed of light.
- It definitely does not establish latency in either the liver or the lungs.
| Main Entry: | interruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break; interference |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, abeyancy, arrest, blackout, breach, break-off, cessation, check, cutoff, delay, disconnection, discontinuance, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, disuniting, division, doldrums, dormancy, gap, halt, hiatus, hindrance, hitch, impediment, interim, intermission, interval, intrusion, lacuna, latency, layoff, letup, obstacle, obstruction, parenthesis, pause, quiescence, rift, rupture, separation, severance, split, stop, stoppage, suspension |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
| Main Entry: | presence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occupancy, attendance |
| Synonyms: | being, companionship, company, existence, habitation, inhabitance, latency, occupation, omnipresence, potentiality, residence, subsistence, ubiety, ubiquity, whereabouts |
| Antonyms: | absence |
| Main Entry: | suspension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delay |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, abeyancy, adjournment, break, breather, breathing spell, cessation, coffee break, concluding, conclusion, cutoff, deferment, disbarment, discontinuation, discontinuing, doldrums, dormancy, downtime, end, ending, finish, five, freeze, halt, heave-ho, intermission, interruption, latency, layoff, letup, moratorium, pause, period, postponement, quiescence, quiescency, remission, respite, stay, stoppage, suspense, ten, termination, time-out |
| Antonyms: | completion, continuation, finish, persistence |
| Main Entry: | power broker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person with power |
| Synonyms: | fixer, hand that rocks the cradle, influence peddler, kingmaker, latency, logroller, power behind the throne, wire-puller |
| Main Entry: | low profile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance of attention |
| Synonyms: | inconspicuousness, latency, low key, low posture, low visibility, reluctance, reticence, secrecy, semivisibility |
| Main Entry: | abeyancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abeyance |
| Synonyms: | deferral, dormancy, intermission, latency, postponement, quiescence, suspension |
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