Definitions of lag

The word "lag" uses 3 letters: agl.

a. - Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. ²

a. - Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. ²

a. - Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. ²

n. - One who lags; that which comes in last. ²

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

n. - The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing. ²

n. - 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. ²

n. - See Graylag. ²

v. i. - To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. ²

v. t. - To cause to lag; to slacken. ²

v. t. - To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4. ²

n. - One transported for a crime. ²

v. t. - To transport for crime. ²

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. ²