Lag

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

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
Lag, in international finance, delaying of payment to take advantage of an expected change in exchange rates
Lag, in Project Schedule Management's Sequence Activities process, the amount of time to start an activity after a successor activity is finished in a finish-to-start activity relationship

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 aggregation group, multiple computer network cables/ports used in parallel
Local Action Group, a type of community-based organization used as part of the European LEADER programme.
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
Los Angeles Gladiators, a professional esports team

LAGs may refer to

Liquids, aerosols, and gels; a category of items subject to certain restrictions in air travel

See also