This fighting game is beautiful, but nobody will play it because of the atrocious input latency.
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Latency
Synonyms for "latency" (50 found)
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Closest matches (10)
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2 entriesTranslations
52 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- закъснение noun (delay)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 延遲 /延迟 noun (delay)
Czech
2 entries- latence noun (delay)
- zpoždění noun (delay)
Dutch
2 entries- vertraging noun (delay)
- wachttijd noun (delay)
Finnish
2 entries- latenssi noun (delay)
- viive noun (delay)
French
1 entries- latence noun (delay)
Galician
2 entries- latencia noun (delay)
- latencia noun (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism)
German
4 entries- Latenz noun (delay)
- Latenz noun (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism)
- Latenzmechanismus noun (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism)
- Latenzzeit noun (delay)
Greek
2 entries- καθυστέρηση noun (delay)
- υστέρηση noun (delay)
Hungarian
2 entries- lappangás noun (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism)
- lappangási idő noun (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism)
Icelandic
1 entries- biðtími noun (delay)
Italian
1 entries- latenza noun (delay)
Japanese
4 entries- レイテンシ noun (delay)
- レイテンシー noun (delay)
- レーテンシー noun (delay)
- 休眠 noun (inactivity, dormancy)
Latin
1 entries- latēntia noun (delay)
Persian
1 entries- نهفتگی noun (delay)
Polish
1 entries- latencja noun (delay)
Portuguese
2 entries- latência noun (delay)
- latência noun (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism)
Romanian
1 entries- latență noun (delay)
Russian
4 entries- заде́ржка noun (delay)
- латентное состояние noun (inactivity, dormancy)
- незаметность noun (hiddenness)
- скрытая форма noun (inactivity, dormancy)
Slovak
2 entries- latencia noun (delay)
- oneskorenie noun (delay)
Spanish
2 entries- latencia noun (delay)
- latencia noun (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism)
Turkish
4 entries- gecikme noun (delay)
- gizlilik noun (delay)
- saklılık noun (delay)
- yataklık süresi noun (delay between a stimulus and the response in an organism)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Even if you removed every other source of latency in a network, you must contend with the speed of light.
Source: tatoeba (11125301)
That server has high latency.
Source: tatoeba (11240504)
network latency
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.