Latency

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-003265",
  "term": "Latency",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "The delay between the initiation of a process or request and the beginning of its execution or the delivery of its result. In data communication, it represents the time taken for a data packet to travel from its source to its destination. This measurement is often expressed in milliseconds.",
  "synonyms": [
    "lag",
    "delay"
  ],
  "subject": "Industrial electronics",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Latenz",
    "es": "latencia",
    "fr": "latence"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/latency/"
}