Romanian Meaning of lag

întârziere

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Definitions and Meaning of lag in English

Wordnet

lag (n)

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

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lag (v)

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

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lag (a.)

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

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

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

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lag (n.)

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.; 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.

See Graylag.

One transported for a crime.

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.

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lag (v. i.)

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

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lag (v. t.)

To cause to lag; to slacken.

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

To transport for crime.

FAQs About the word lag

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