Latency vs. Lag
Difference Between Latency and Lag
Latencynoun
The state of being latent.
Lagadjective
late
Latencynoun
(electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
Lagadjective
(obsolete) Last; long-delayed.
Latencynoun
(medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
Lagadjective
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
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.
Lagnoun
(countable) A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
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
Lagnoun
(uncountable) Delay; latency.
Latencynoun
the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
Lagnoun
One sentenced to transportation for a crime.
Latencynoun
the state of being not yet evident or active
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.
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;
The suspects were imprisoned without trialthe murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his lifeLagverb
throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
Lagverb
cover with lagging to prevent heat loss;
lag pipes
