Latency vs. Lag

The state or quality of being latent.

To fail to keep up a pace; straggle

(Psychology) The latency period.

To proceed or develop with comparative slowness

A latent period.

To weaken or slacken; flag

The time interval between initiating a query, transmission, or process, and receiving or detecting the results, often given as an average value over a large number of events.

(Games) To determine the order of play by hitting or shooting a ball toward a mark, as in marbles or billiards, with the player whose ball stops closest to the mark going first.

Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.

To fail to keep up with (another)

Dormancy; the state of being inactive.

To proceed or develop at a slower pace than (another)

(electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.

(Sports) In golf, to hit (a putt) so that it stops a short way from the hole and can then be tapped in.

(medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.

To furnish or cover with lags.

A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.

To arrest.

The state or quality of being latent.

To send to prison.

The time between a stimulus the appearance of the response; the time between any causal action and the first appearance of the effect. Called also latent period.

An interval between one event or phenomenon and another

The time between exposure to a carcinogen or other disease-causing agent and the appearance of the consequent disease.

A condition of weakness or slackening

(computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head

A barrel stave.

the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it

A strip, as of wood, that forms a part of the covering for a cylindrical object.

the state of being not yet evident or active

A convict.

An ex-convict.

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(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.

(uncountable) Delay; latency.

One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

A prisoner, a criminal.

(snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.

One who lags; that which comes in last.

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.

A bird, the greylag.

To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.

To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer]].

To respond slowly.

To transport as a punishment for crime.

To arrest or apprehend.

(transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

Last; long-delayed; - obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

One who lags; that which comes in last.

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.;

See Graylag.

The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related; as, the lag of magnetization compared with the magnetizing force (hysteresis); the lag of the current in an alternating circuit behind the impressed electro-motive force which produced it.

One transported for a crime.

To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

To cause to lag; to slacken.

To transport for crime.

the act of slowing down or falling behind

the time between one event, process, or period and another

one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket

hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;

throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

cover with lagging to prevent heat loss;