Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The interval of time between the application of a force and the effect: said of recording instruments in which the inertia of moving parts causes a certain retardation of action, of electromagnets in which the full magnetization lags behind the magnetizing force, and of all cases in which the response to any stimulus follows the latter after an appreciable interval.
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Examples
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Of course it takes time, and there's always a time-lag, a gap between public awareness and pressure, and a shift in policy.
Jonathan Guyer: Six Questions for Dr. Hanan Ashrawi Jonathan Guyer 2012
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Of course it takes time, and there's always a time-lag, a gap between public awareness and pressure, and a shift in policy.
Jonathan Guyer: Six Questions for Dr. Hanan Ashrawi Jonathan Guyer 2012
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In the past the gap between the figures has been attributed to time-lag differences.
Government statistics Not a sheep 2008
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In the past the gap between the figures has been attributed to time-lag differences.
Archive 2008-11-01 Not a sheep 2008
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The guy was on the moon, which meant only a nine-minute time-lag.
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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The time-lag involved in each introduced an element of risk.
Bargain Now, Deliver Later Roger Lowenstein 2010
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We're watching a time-lag in human consciousness and commerce, and right now everything seems to be going in the right direction, racial acceptance wise.
The Beef Brigade Steven Barnes 2009
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We're watching a time-lag in human consciousness and commerce, and right now everything seems to be going in the right direction, racial acceptance wise.
The Beef Brigade Steven Barnes 2009
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Ideological infection transmitted by loose network, causing something like time-lag separation loss to overtake loose network.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 3.1 of 31.1 2009
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I often envy my mainstream media colleagues who have careful editors who fact-check and at least provide some time-lag in case I dash off something intemperate or stupid -- or both.
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