I've very less knowledge in electronics, I've read that a latch is a simple circuit that stores 1 bit of data (or state).
A Latch is a circuit that has two stable states and can be used to store state information.
That means it is a noun or a simple thing.
But while reading microprocessors (8085), in Timing and Control, there's a signal called ALE (Adress Latch Enable). And I read this line -
The ALE is a pulse signal, used to latch the address from AD0-AD7.
Now in the line above, the term latch is used as a verb. I don't know what exactly mean by that line above. What is mean by latching something?
So here my question is what is a latch? And what is the meaning of the line above? And what is ALE?