Latency vs Jitter - What's the difference?
latency | jitter |
The state of being latent.
(electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
(medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
A nervous action; a tic.
A state of nervousness.
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(telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
As nouns the difference between latency and jitter
is that latency is the state of being latent while jitter is a nervous action; a tic.As a verb jitter is
to be nervous.latency
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(wikipedia latency)Noun
(latencies)Synonyms
* (state of being latent) hiddenness, invisibility * lag (casual) * delayjitter
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Etymology 1
Possibly alteration ofNoun
(en noun)- That creepy movie gave me the jitters .
Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
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