Definition: lag

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

lag
     n 1: the act of slowing down or falling behind [syn: slowdown,
          retardation]
     2: the time between one event, process, or period and another
        [syn: interim]
     3: one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a
        barrel or bucket [syn: stave]
     v 1: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress,
          development, etc. [syn: dawdle, fall back, fall
          behind]
     2: lock up in jail [syn: imprison, incarcerate, immure, put
        behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand]
     3: throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
     4: cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes"

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lag \Lag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lagged; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Lagging.]
   To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or
   loiter. ``I shall not lag behind.'' --Milton.

   Syn: To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.

Lag \Lag\, a. [Of Celtic origin: cf. Gael. & Ir. lagweak,
   feeble, faint, W. llag, llac, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish;
   prob. akin to E. lax, languid.]
   1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. [Obs.]

            Came too lag to see him buried.       --Shak.

   2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag
      end. ``The lag end of my life.'' --Shak.

Lag \Lag\, v. t.
   1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] ``To lag his flight.''
      --Heywood.

   2. (Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with
      lags. See Lag, n., 4.

Lag \Lag\, n.
   One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]

Lag \Lag\, v. t.
   To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.]

         She lags us if we poach.                 --De Quincey.

Lag \Lag\, n.
   1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.] ``The lag
      of all the flock.'' --Pope.

   2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

            The common lag of people.             --Shak.

   3. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a
      steam engine, in opening or closing.

   4. 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.

   5. (Zo["o]l.) See Graylag.

   Lag of the tide, the interval by which the time of high
      water falls behind the mean time, in the first and third
      quarters of the moon; -- opposed to priming of the tide,
      or the acceleration of the time of high water, in the
      second and fourth quarters; depending on the relative
      positions of the sun and moon.

   Lag screw, an iron bolt with a square head, a sharp-edged
      thread, and a sharp point, adapted for screwing into wood;
      a screw for fastening lags.

Lag \Lag\, n.
   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.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10)

lag

   netlag

Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001

LAG
        Logical Address Group (ION)

Source: Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

lag n. [MUD, IRC; very common] When used without qualification this is
   synomous with netlag. Curiously, people will often complain "I'm
   really lagged" when in fact it is their server or network connection
   that is lagging.