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Substantiivi

1. Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
2. Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
3. (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
4. (artificial intelligence) 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. (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
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.