| Lag (lag) |
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| Lag |
| [Of Celtic origin: cf.
Gael. *** Ir. lagweak, feeble, faint, W. llag,
llac, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish] prob. akin to E.
lax, languid.] |
Coming tardily
after or behind; slow; tardy.
Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in
the phrase lag end.
Last made; hence, made of refuse;
inferior.
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One
who lags; that which comes in last.
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest
class.
The amount of retardation of anything, as
of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
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.
See
Graylag.
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To walk or more slowly] to stay or fall
behind; to linger or loiter.
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To
cause to lag; to slacken.
To cover, as the cylinder
of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n.,
4.
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One transported for a
crime.
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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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