Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action" [syn: delay, hold, postponement, wait]
Usage examples of "time lag".
If it made for a small time lag between sending and receiving, well, that would entail inconvenience, certainly, but not catastrophe.
Any time lag, no matter how small it seems at first, between transmission and reception has a way of becoming major as longer and longer distances are involved.
Through the time lag he looked at her face and understood, piece by hurtful piece, that whether or not he actually loved her, he desired her as a man lost in wilderness desires water and fire.
Doug Stavenger was also feeling frustrated about the long time lag between Selene and the Belt.
If we're going to do an interview it'll have to be before we get so far away the time lag makes it impossible to have a real-time conversation.
She's already warned me about time lag and every single mediaeval disease, in gruesome detail, even though I'm supposed to be immune to all of them.
That's the way we've been handling personal messages, what with the time lag and the busy schedule those guys have down on the surface of the planet.
It's as though my entire brain is suffering a time lag, and it's not just the bloody seizures.
With the time lag between us it was difficult enough to get anything agreed to.