ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Netlag

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Netlag is a noun meaning (computing) The delay arising from communication between networked computers.

Meaning

(computing) The delay arising from communication between networked computers.

Example Sentences

Unknown thinking, typing, and netlag times make it impossible to tell [whether a participant in online chat is fully attentive].
If our test script is deployed live on a faraway web server, with netlag we could fairly easily click the button twice before the response came back[…]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include networking, bufferbloat, network, catenet, netboot, netsplit.

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