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Latency (engineering)

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Latency, from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed. Lag, as it is known in gaming circles, refers to the latency between the input to a simulation and the visual or auditory response, often occurring because of network delay in online games.Latency is physically a consequence of the limited velocity at which any physical interaction can propagate. The magnitude of this velocity is always less than or equal to the speed of light. Therefore, every physical system with any physical separation (distance) between cause and effect will experience some sort of latency, regardless of the nature of the stimulation at which it has been exposed to.

Latency (engineering) - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Time delay between an input and a response This article needs more citations . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . Find sources: "Latency" engineering – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( April 2011 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Latency , from a general point of view, is a time delay between the cause and the effect of some physical change in the system being observed. Lag , as it is known

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