halt vs latency

halt

noun
  • A cessation, either temporary or permanent. 

  • A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom. 

verb
  • To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. 

  • To bring to a stop. 

  • To limp; move with a limping gait. 

  • To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. 

  • To falter. 

  • To stop marching. 

  • To stop either temporarily or permanently. 

  • To cause to discontinue. 

  • To waver. 

latency

noun
  • Dormancy; the state of being inactive. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words halt and latency occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )