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noun
1.
the act of falling or staying behind.
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adjective
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lingering; loitering; slow and dragging: lagging steps.
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Lagging
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verb (used without object)
1.
to fail to maintain a desired pace or to keep up; fall or stay behind: After five minutes of hard running, some of them began to lag.
2.
to move or develop slowly, as toward a goal or objective, or in relation to an associated factor (often followed by behind): to lag behind in production.
3.
to delay or fail in reaching full development: The factory lags regularly in making its quota.
4.
to hang back; linger; delay: The old friends lagged because they wanted to talk some more.
5.
EXPANDto decrease, wane, or flag gradually, as in intensity: Interest lagged as the meeting went on.
verb (used with object)
8.
to fail to keep up with: The industry still lags the national economy.
9.
Obsolete. to cause to lag.
noun
10.
a lagging or falling behind; retardation.
11.
a person who lags behind, is the last to arrive, etc.
12.
an interval or lapse of time: There was a developmental lag in the diffusion of ideas.
13.
Mechanics. the amount of retardation of some motion.
14.
EXPANDElectricity. the retardation of one alternating quantity, as current, with respect to another related alternating quantity, as voltage, often expressed in degrees.
15.
COLLAPSEMarbles, Billiards. the act of lagging.
Origin:
1505–15; < Scandinavian: compare Norwegian lagga to go slowly
1505–15; < Scandinavian: compare Norwegian lagga to go slowly
Synonyms
1. loiter, linger. 10. slowing, slowdown.
1. loiter, linger. 10. slowing, slowdown.
Antonyms
1. hasten.
1. hasten.
noun
1.
one of the staves or strips that form the periphery of a wooden drum, the casing of a steam cylinder, or the like.
2.
Masonry. a crosspiece between ribs in a centering.
verb (used with object)
3.
to line or cover (an excavation) with lagging.
4.
to cover with insulation, as a steam boiler, to prevent radiation of heat.
Origin:
1665–75; < Scandinavian; compare Swedish lagg stave
1665–75; < Scandinavian; compare Swedish lagg stave
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Word Origin & History
lag
"fail to keep pace," 1520s, from earlier adj. meaning "last" (1510s), e.g. lag-mon "last man," possibly from a Scand. source (cf. Norw. lagga "go slowly"), or some dialectal version of last, lack, or delay. Related: Lag; lagging. First record of lag time is from 1956.
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Medical Dictionary
lagging lag·ging (lāg'ĭng)
n.
Retarded or diminished movement of the affected side of the chest in pulmonary tuberculosis.
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