meaning of lag
1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
4. One who lags; that which comes in last.
5. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
6. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
7. 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.
8. See Graylag.
9. To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
10. To cause to lag; to slacken.
11. To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n. , 4.
12. One transported for a crime.
13. To transport for crime.
14. lag netlag Lakota Scripting language, extends existing OS commands. E-mail: Richard Harter
15. the act of slowing down or falling behind
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