different between latency vs bandwidth

English

Etymology

latent +? -cy

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?le?.t?n.si/

Noun

latency (countable and uncountable, plural latencies)

1. The state of being latent.
2. (electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
3. (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
4. A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.

Synonyms

• (state of being latent): hiddenness, invisibility
• lag (not physics- or electronic gaming-related)
• delay

Translations

Anagrams

• Cantley

English

Etymology

band +? width

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bændw?d?/, /?bændw?t?/

Noun

bandwidth (countable and uncountable, plural bandwidths)

1. The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
   • 2010 October 30, Jim Giles, Jammed!, in New Scientist,

     But now is a good time to be bargaining for bandwidth, as the switch from analogue to digital television is freeing up space.

2. (of a signal) The width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit.
3. (networking, informal) The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate.
4. (informal) The capacity, energy or time required.

   I think it's a worthy project, but I just don't have the bandwidth right now.

Translations

See also

• bandshape
• broadband

References