What is "lag"

Lag \Lag\, v. t. To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.]

She lags us if we poach.
--De Quincey.

Lag \Lag\, n. One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]

Lag \Lag\, v. t.

1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] ``To lag his flight.''
   --Heywood.

2. (Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.

Lag \Lag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lagging.] To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. ``I shall not lag behind.''
--Milton.

Syn: To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.

Lag \Lag\, a. [Of Celtic origin: cf. Gael. & Ir. lagweak, feeble, faint, W. llag, llac, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish; prob. akin to E. lax, languid.]

1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. [Obs.]

   Came too lag to see him buried.
   --Shak.

2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. ``The lag end of my life.''
   --Shak.

3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. [Obs.] ``Lag souls.''
   --Dryden.

Lag \Lag\, n.

1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.] ``The lag of all the flock.''
   --Pope.

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

   The common lag of people.
   --Shak.

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

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

5. (Zo["o]l.) See Graylag.

6. 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 of the tide, the interval by which the time of high water falls behind the mean time, in the first and third quarters of the moon; -- opposed to priming of the tide, or the acceleration of the time of high water, in the second and fourth quarters; depending on the relative positions of the sun and moon.

   Lag screw, an iron bolt with a square head, a sharp-edged thread, and a sharp point, adapted for screwing into wood; a screw for fastening lags.

"fail to keep pace," 1520s, earlier as a noun meaning "last person" (1510s), later also as an adjective (1550s, as in lag-mon "last man"), all of uncertain relationship, possibly from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian lagga "go slowly"), or some dialectal version of last, lack, or delay. Related: Lag; lagging. The noun meaning "retardation" is from 1855. First record of lag time is from 1951.

1. 1 late 2 (context obsolete English) Last; long-delayed. 3 Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. n. 1 (context countable English) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency. 2 (context uncountable English) delay; latency. 3 (context British slang archaic English) One sentenced to transportation for a crime. 4 (context British slang English) a prisoner, a criminal. 5 (context snooker English) 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. 6 One who lags; that which comes in last. 7 The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. 8 A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (context engineering English) 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. 9 A bird, the greylag. v

2. 1 to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind 2 to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material 3 (context UK slang archaic English) To transport as a punishment for crime. 4 (context transitive English) To cause to lag; to slacken.

1. n. the act of slowing down or falling behind [syn: slowdown, retardation]

2. the time between one event, process, or period and another [syn: interim]

3. one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket [syn: stave]

4. [also: lagging, lagged]

1. v. hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. [syn: dawdle, fall back, fall behind]

2. 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" [syn: imprison, incarcerate, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand]

3. throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

4. cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes"

5. [also: lagging, lagged]

Lag refers to slower response time (or latency), and to delays experienced in computing, communications, and engineering. (see also Lag (online gaming)).

Lag may also refer to:

• Lag (cue sports), brief pre-game competition to determine which player will go first
• Lag, the time between tasks in project plans, in project management
• Jet lag
• Lag screw or lag bolt
• Lead-lag compensator, a component in a control system
• Turbo lag
• Lag, a very long putt in golf
• Łąg, Poland
• Lag Seeing, the protagonist in the anime Tegami Bachi
• Lag (company), a French guitar maker
• Lag, British slang for inmate (prisoner) in a correctional facility
• Lag, incubation time
• Lag time of medical diagnosis
• Lag, a measure for spatial dependence in a sampling variogram
• Distributed lag in econometrics, a modelling structure in which a variable is influenced in part by its own prior values
• Lag deposit, a geological unit of material deposited from some selective process

Lagging is mainly used in the following senses:

• Lagging indicator, an economic indicator that reacts slowly to economic changes, and therefore has little predictive value
• Lagging (epidemiology), excluding the exposure shortly before an outcome
• Lagging, building insulation wrapped around hot or cold water pipes to conserve heat or to protect from freezing.

LAG may refer to

• LAG Motorcoach, a bus and trailer manufacturer in Bree, Belgium
• La Grange (Amtrak station)
• Latin America Solidarity Organisation in Norway, Latin-Amerika gruppene i Norge (LAG)
• Left-associative grammar, a generative grammar formalism
• Ligue d'Athlétisme de la Guyane, the governing body for the sport of athletics in French Guiana
• Lines of Arrested Growth, also known as Harris lines
• Link aggregate group, multiple computer network cables/ports used in parallel
• Local Action Group, (Leader+ EU development program)
• Lokalbahn AG, a former German private railway company based in Bavaria
• LA Galaxy, an American soccer (association football) team
• Loose-aggressive, a technique of poker strategy

Łąg is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czersk, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Czersk, north-east of Chojnice, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.

For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

The village has a population of 1,135.

Lâg Guitars is a French music company founded in the Occitania region of France, by master luthier Michel Lâg-Chavarria. Lâg is most popular for its guitars (e.g. the Lâg Roxane and the Tramontane acoustic series). Lâg has produced guitars since 1980, starting with Beast superstrat models to arkane, which is the most popular and requested from all. They are designed in a small custom shop in the south of France. Phil Campbell of Motörhead and Charles Hedger of Cradle of filth use LÂG guitars. Roger Edwards - Wolverhampton of Joe Takes Brooklyn uses LAG Electro Acoustic.

In online gaming, lag is a noticeable delay between the action of players and the reaction of the server in a video game. Although lag may be caused by high latency, it may also occur due to insufficient processing power either in the server (where it may process time based events) or in the client ( screen-lag). Screen-Lag can also happen in single player games as well.

The tolerance for lag depends heavily on the type of game. For instance, a strategy game or a turn-based game with a low pace may have a high threshold or even be mostly unaffected by high delays, whereas a twitch gameplay game such as a first-person shooter with a considerably higher pace may require significantly lower delay to be able to provide satisfying gameplay. However, the specific characteristics of the game matter. For example, fast chess is a turn-based game that is fast action and may not tolerate high lag. Also, some twitch games can be designed such that only events that don't impact the outcome of the game introduce lag, allowing for fast local response most of the time.