lag

Noun

lag (plural lags)

1. a gap; an interval created by something not keeping up
2. (English slang) a prisoner, a criminal.

3 letters in word "lag": A G L.

Anagrams of lag:

• gal

Words found within lag:

ag al la

• Definitions:
• hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. imprison: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" slowdown: the act of slowing down or falling behind interim: the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government" throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins stave: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes"
• Lag is a common term used to describe a symptom often encountered in computing and especially networked systems, where results of actions appear much later than expected. ...
• the amount of time between making an online request or command and receiving a response. Until lag time becomes no time at all, the Internet will not be consumer-friendly, and its profit potential will remain limited.
• The number of data points that a filer, such as a moving average, follows or trails the input price data.
• 1. That part of the difference between the output of an instrument and its input that is due to the failure of the instrument to respond instantaneously to variations of the input signal. It is a function of the instrument's time constant. See time lag. 2. A time displacement of a time series. ...
• A time delay between the output of a signal and the response of the instrument to which the signal is sent. (2) A time relationship between two waveforms where a fixed reference point on one wave occurs after the same point of the reference wave.
• (also "lag putt, approach putt") a putt that is intended to stop close to the hole but not presumed to be holed Example: I was just lagging the putt, actually; I never thought it would go in.
• 1. The measure of the time between the center of mass of precipitation to the center of mass of runoff (on the hydrograph); basin lag is a function of not only basin characteristics, but also of storm intensity and movement. ...
• Crosspieces used to connect the ribs in centering.
• is the distance between speech events of a speaker in a chat situation, a pause between utterances.
• This is when a golfer tries to putt their ball close to the hole, to make sure that it is close enough to get it in the hole on their next stroke.
• The integrated product of two digitized signals, one delayed in time with respect to the other. If the two signals are from the same source, then it is an ‘auto-correlation product’, while if the signals are from different sources, then it is a ‘cross-correlation product.’
• An interval of time before additional flow enters the system.
• Lag distance is a distance (h) within which any two samples (a pair) is taken for variogram calculation. Lag tolerance ( glosim2.gif (861 bytes)) is assigned to the lag for setting a search interval for pairs: ± glosim2.gif (861 bytes) . So the pairs are searched within h ± glosim2. ...
• Time delay encountered when a computer processes data or when a web page is loading data.
• the horizontal distance between two geographic data points. Used to create a semi-variogram.
• A coarse-grained residue left behind after finer particles have been transported away, due to the inability of the transporting medium to move the coarser particles.
• Variously defined as time from beginning (or center of mass) of rainfall to peak (or center of mass) of runoff.
• Lag is a term indicating the latency of a connection, mainly to the bad. More lag indicates a longer time for your game to communicate with the game server, and thus a higher amount of lag indicates slower responses.
• Difference in time between two waveforms of the same frequency expressed in degrees. Example: One waveform lags another waveform by a certain number of degrees.
• 1. A relative measure of the time delay between two events, states, or mechanisms. 2. In control theory, a transfer function term in the form, lI(Ts + 1).
• When a golfer attempts to putt the ball near to the hole not caring whether it goes in or not.
• The image retention of an object after the object has been scanned. Sometimes, it causes smearing effect.
• An index that reflects the gap (ie, lag) between a player's expected statistical output and his actual statistical output. The lag can occur for many reasons, but some of the more common reasons are lack of playing time, injury, and late-call-ups. ...
• a) In a network diagram, the minimum necessary lapse of time between the finish of one activity and the finish of an overlapping activity b) delay incurred between two specified activities.
• To putt the ball with the intention leaving it short to ensure being able to hole out on the next stroke lateral hazard Any hazard running parallel to the line of play
• determining who will break. Each player shoots a solid ball (not the cue ball) from behind the head string to the foot of the table. The player whose ball returns closest to the head rail wins the lag and the break. The winner of the lag may elect to pass the break to his opponent.

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• laff ←
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