"Latency period" refers to the time delay or pause between an action or stimulus and its effect or response. It is a period of time where nothing apparent or noticeable happens. Full definition
Given the long latency period of the illness, it can be over 20 years before symptoms manifest themselves, by which time tracing, proving and establishing the source of the asbestos exposure after so many years can be difficult. (educationbusinessuk.net)
PayPal has recently filed a patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) with the claims that there is an unacceptable «time delay or latency period between the initialization of the transaction and the point at which the transaction has been confirmed». (bitmainnews.com)
If, after a 10 - year latency period, astronauts in their seventies developed a cancer, critics could not charge that they had been struck down in the prime of life. (discovermagazine.com)