Latency vs. Lag

Latency vs. Lag — Is There a Difference?
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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.

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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.

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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 life

Lagverb

throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

Lagverb

cover with lagging to prevent heat loss;

lag pipes