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Latency vs. Lag

By Muazma Batool — Updated on May 3, 2023

Difference Between Latency and Lag

Latency

The state or quality of being latent.

Lag

To fail to keep up a pace; straggle
a hiker who lagged behind his companions on the trail.

Latency

(Psychology) The latency period.

Lag

To proceed or develop with comparative slowness
a nation that lags behind its neighbors in economic development.

Latency

A latent period.

Lag

To weaken or slacken; flag
My attention lagged when the lecturer changed subjects.

Latency

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.

Lag

(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.

Latency

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

Lag

To fail to keep up with (another)
One horse lagged the others throughout the race.

Latency

Dormancy; the state of being inactive.

Lag

To proceed or develop at a slower pace than (another)
"putting new money into sectors that have lagged the market" (Peter Lynch).

Latency

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

Lag

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

Latency

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

Lag

To furnish or cover with lags.

Latency

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.

Lag

To arrest.

Latency

The state or quality of being latent.
To simplify the discussion, I shall distinguish three degrees of this latency.

Lag

To send to prison.

Latency

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.

Lag

An interval between one event or phenomenon and another
"He wondered darkly at how great a lag there was between his thinking and his actions" (Thomas Wolfe).

Latency

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

Lag

A condition of weakness or slackening
a lag in interest.

Latency

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

Lag

A barrel stave.

Latency

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

Lag

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

Latency

the state of being not yet evident or active

Lag

A convict.

Lag

An ex-convict.

Lag

(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.

Lag

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

Lag

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

Lag

(uncountable) Delay; latency.

Lag

One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

Lag

A prisoner, a criminal.

Lag

(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.

Lag

One who lags; that which comes in last.

Lag

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

Lag

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.

Lag

A bird, the greylag.

Lag

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

Lag

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

Lag

To respond slowly.
My phone is starting to lag.

Lag

To transport as a punishment for crime.

Lag

To arrest or apprehend.

Lag

(transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.

Lag

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
Came too lag to see him buried.

Lag

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

Lag

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

Lag

One who lags; that which comes in last.

Lag

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
The common lag of people.

Lag

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

Lag

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.;

Lag

See Graylag.

Lag

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.

Lag

One transported for a crime.

Lag

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

Lag

To cause to lag; to slacken.

Lag

To transport for crime.
She lags us if we poach.

Lag

the act of slowing down or falling behind

Lag

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

Lag

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

Lag

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

Lag

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

Lag

throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

Lag

cover with lagging to prevent heat loss;
lag pipes

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