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   Lag
   Payment of a financial obligation later than is expected or required, as in lead and lag. Also, the number of periods that an independent variable in a regression model is 'held back' in order to predict the dependent variable.
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   [v] - hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. 2. [v] - throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins 3. [v] - cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
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   the failure of the output current to follow variations of the light input instantaneously Category: Electrical engineering and energy • One unit of the pattern chain controlling the operating of a dobby,box-motion,or other mechanism. Category: Various industries and crafts • an event occurring at time t + k(k greater than O)is said to lag behind event occurring at time t,th...
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   Lag adjective [ Of Celtic origin: confer Gael. & Ir. lag weak, feeble, faint, W. llag , llac , slack, loose, remiss, sluggish; probably akin to English lax , languid .] 1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. [ Obsolete] « Came too lag to see him buried.» Shak. 2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the ...
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   Lag noun 1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [ Obsolete] 'The lag of all the flock.' Pope. 2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. « The common lag of people.» Shak. 3. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing. 4. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especi ...
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   Lag intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Lagged ; present participle & verbal noun Lagging .] To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. 'I shall not lag behind.' Milton. Syn. -- To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.
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   Lag transitive verb 1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [ Obsolete] 'To lag his flight.' Heywood. 2. (Machinery) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag , noun , 4.
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   Lag noun One transported for a crime. [ Slang, Eng.]
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    Lag transitive verb To transport for crime. [ Slang, Eng.] « She lags us if we poach.» De Quincey.
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    Lag noun 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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    1. One who lags; that which comes in last. 'The lag of all the flock.' ... 2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. 'The common lag of people.' (Shak) ... 3. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing. ... 4. A stave of a cask, drum, etc. ... <machinery> Especially, one of the narrow bo ...
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    dawdle 1 fall back verb hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
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    verb throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
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    Lag
    Payment of a financial obligation later than is expected or required, as in lead and lag. Also, the number of periods that an dependent variable in a regression model is 'held back' in order to predict the dependent variable.
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    In computing and especially computer networks, a `lag` is a symptom where result of an action appears later than expected. While different kinds of latency are well defined technical terms, lag is the symptom, not the cause. Communications latency is the time taken for a packet of data to be sent from one application, travel to, and be received by another application. This includes transit time over the network, and processing time at the source...
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    (lag) the time elapsing between application of a stimulus and the resulting reaction. the early period after inoculation of bacteria into a culture medium, in which the growth or cell division is slow. lag of accommodation the extent to which the eyes fail to focus accuratel...
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    • (n.) 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. • (v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4. • (a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; infe...
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    A late or delayed payment of a financial obligation; also meaning the number of periods that a variable in a model is held back in an effort to predict the dependent variable. Discover What It’s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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    1. the act of slowing down or falling behind
    2. the time between one event, process, or period and another
    3. one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
    
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    effect seen when the picture changes and a positive or negative residue of the preceding picture is superimposed on the new picture
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