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Postponement vs Latency - What's the difference?

postponement | latency |

As nouns the difference between postponement and latency

is that postponement is a delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding while latency is the state of being latent.

postponement

English

Noun

(postponements)
  • A delay, as a formal delay in a proceeding.
  • :The lawyer asked for a postponement in the trial so he could spend more time preparing before it began.

    • latency

    English

    (wikipedia latency)

    Noun

    (latencies)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (state of being latent) hiddenness, invisibility * lag (casual) * delay