different between latency vs hysteresis

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

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English

Etymology

Coined by Sir James Alfred Ewing from Ancient Greek ????????? (hustér?sis, “shortcoming”), from ??????? (husteré?, “I am late, fall short”), from ??????? (hústeros, “later”).

Noun

hysteresis (countable and uncountable, plural hystereses)

1. A property of a system such that an output value is not a strict function of the corresponding input, but also incorporates some lag, delay, or history dependence, and in particular when the response for a decrease in the input variable is different from the response for an increase. For example, a thermostat with a nominal setpoint of 75° might switch the controlled heat source on when the temperature drops below 74°, and off when it rises above 76°.
2. Magnetic friction in dynamos, by which every reversal of magnetism in the iron causes dissipation of energy.

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