Latency vs. Lag
Latencynoun
The state of being latent.
Latencynoun
(electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
Latencynoun
(medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
Latencynoun
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.
Latencynoun
The state or quality of being latent.
Latencynoun
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.
Latencynoun
The time between exposure to a carcinogen or other disease-causing agent and the appearance of the consequent disease.
Latencynoun
(computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
Latencynoun
the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
Latencynoun
the state of being not yet evident or active
Lagadjective
late
Lagadjective
(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
Lagadjective
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Lagnoun
(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
Lagnoun
(uncountable) Delay; latency.
Lagnoun
One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
Lagnoun
a prisoner, a criminal.
Lagnoun
(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.
Lagnoun
One who lags; that which comes in last.
Lagnoun
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
Lagnoun
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.
Lagnoun
A bird, the greylag.
Lagverb
to fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
Lagverb
to cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material
Lagverb
To transport as a punishment for crime.
Lagverb
(transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
Lagadjective
Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
Lagadjective
Last; long-delayed; - obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
Lagadjective
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Lagnoun
One who lags; that which comes in last.
Lagnoun
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
Lagnoun
The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
Lagnoun
A stave of a cask, drum, etc.;
Lagnoun
See Graylag.
Lagnoun
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.
Lagnoun
One transported for a crime.
Lagverb
To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
Lagverb
To cause to lag; to slacken.
Lagverb
To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
Lagverb
To transport for crime.
Lagnoun
the act of slowing down or falling behind
Lagnoun
the time between one event, process, or period and another
Lagnoun
one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
Lagverb
hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
Lagverb
lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;
Lagverb
throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
Lagverb
cover with lagging to prevent heat loss;
Lag
In online gaming, lag is a noticeable delay (latency) between the action of players (input) and the reaction of the server supporting the game, which has to be sent back to the client. The player's ability to tolerate lag depends on the type of game being played.
