A short period of time, typically anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes or more.
Only one second; a passage of time one-sixtieth of a minute in duration.
Stop; wait. Used to indicate that the speaker wishes the previous speaker or the proceedings to stop so that he or she can comment on what has been said or has happened so far.
A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
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.
Dormancy; the state of being inactive.