lag
noun/læɡ/
/læɡ/
(also time lag, time lapse)
- the period of time between two connected events see also jet lag, old lagWord Originnoun early 16th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘hindmost person in a game, race, etc.’, also ‘dregs’): related to the dialect adjective lag (perhaps from a fanciful distortion of last, or of Scandinavian origin: compare with Norwegian dialect lagga ‘go slowly’).
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