Lag

/ˈlæɡ/ · adjective

Meaning

Late..

Definitions by Sense

1. Late.
2. (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
4. (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
5. (uncountable) Delay; latency.
6. (UK, Ireland, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
7. (UK, Ireland, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
8. (slang) A period of imprisonment.

Example Sentences

Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried.

the lag end of my life

We know your thoughts of us, that laymen are lag souls, and rubbish of remaining clay.

Although this work is now presented to the world at large, people who read through it before publication severally raised some issues that should be addressed. These resolve around the lag between the field research and the publication of the monograph, a period of rather more than two decades; the use or non-use of various academic forms of terminology, frames of reference, modes of analysis, or "theoretical paradigms"; and my use of the present tense to describe a place that is most certainly not that way now.

During the Second World War, for instance, the Washington Senators had a starting rotation that included four knuckleball pitchers. But, still, I think that some of that was just a generational lag.

Whatever the symptom, lag is a drag. But what causes it? One cause is delays in getting the data from your PC to the game server.

When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.

Latency, or lag, is an unavoidable part of Internet gaming.

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Word Forms

• lags
• lagging
• lagged

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