Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/HysteresisMeaningAndAlerts Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/HysteresisMeaningAndAlerts?atomcommentsDWiki2021-08-11T11:07:04ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/HysteresisMeaningAndAlerts.By Aristotle Pagaltzis on /blog/sysadmin/HysteresisMeaningAndAlertstag:CSpace:blog/sysadmin/HysteresisMeaningAndAlerts:dd394eaf2ea58d67076d95c90914420aadb8579eAristotle Pagaltzishttp://plasmasturm.org/<div class="wikitext"><p>For some context, the Greek word for “delay” (as in running behind schedule) is “cathysteresis” which translates half-literally, half-literarily as something like “too-late-ness”. (I.e. when you say “there’s been a delay” in Greek, what you say literally means “there’s been a toolateness”.)</p>
<p>Taking away <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1-">the cath- prefix</a> leaves you with “lateness” but where “late” is specifically in the sense of “the hour was late” rather than “we got there too late”. (French has the distinction between “tard” and “retard” for this.)</p>
<p>So “hysteresis” in its meaning in Greek denotes something like the opposite of immediacy. Applied in computing, I guess that makes it something like the opposite of instant responsiveness.</p>
</div>2021-08-11T11:07:04Z