Usually means: Delay between action and response.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. lag: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lag, lag, lag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lag, lag, lag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lag: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lag: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lag, lag: Wordnik
  7. lag: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. LAG, lag: Wiktionary
  9. lag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lag: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. lag: Dictionary.com
  13. lag (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lag: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. LAG, Lag (company), Lag (disambiguation), Lag (online gaming), Lag (pool), Lag: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lag: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lag: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lag: Rhymezone
  19. lag: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lag: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. LAG: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. lag: Free Dictionary
  23. lag: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lag: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. lag: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Lag: Neuage Online Discourse Analysis Theory

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Lag: bizterms.net
  4. Lag: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. lag: Legal dictionary
  6. Lag: Financial dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lag: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Lag: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. Lag: Game Dictionary
  4. lag: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. lag: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAG: Acronym Finder
  2. LAG: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. lag: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lag: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lag, lag, lag, lag, lag, lag, lag, lag: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. L.A.G, l.a.g: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. lag: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. lag: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Lag: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  8. LAG: Power Engineering

(Note: See lagged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Late.
adjective:  (obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
adjective:  Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
noun:  (countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
noun:  (uncountable) Delay; latency.
noun:  (British, slang, archaic) One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
noun:  (British, slang) A prisoner, a criminal.
noun:  (slang) A period of imprisonment.
noun:  (snooker) A method of deciding which player is to 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.
noun:  One who lags; that which comes in last.
noun:  The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
noun:  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.
noun:  A bird, the greylag.
verb:  To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
verb:  To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer).
verb:  (computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.
verb:  (UK, slang, archaic) To transport as a punishment for crime.
verb:  (UK, slang, archaic) To arrest or apprehend.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to lag; to slacken.
adjective:  (poker) Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).

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