latency

noun6

1. •
   Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
2. •
   A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
3. •
   The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
4. •
   The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.

   • The disease has a long period of latency.
5. •
   Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
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.