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  1. intransitive verb To fail to keep up a pace; straggle.
  2. intransitive verb To proceed or develop with comparative slowness: The electric current lags behind the voltage.
  3. intransitive verb To fail, weaken, or slacken gradually; flag.
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  • In the first Chrysler turbine car, the lag was a full 7 seconds! —  THE FUTURE OF AUTOMOTIVE POWER PLANTS
  • ‘Maybe you have jet-lag, and it’s affecting your judgement. —  PregnantbytheMillionaire
  • In all of the matches I have played I never received any lag, which is fantastic. —  LR News
  • Part of the reason for this lag might be the fact that they run their own music even called Swan Song Council. —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • Changes manifest after a certain time lag-an institutional lag, a discursive lag, and a policy lag-yet changes are underway even if the language to signal them is not quite there yet. —  Trade Observatory
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  1. From earlier lag, last person, from Middle English lag-, last (in lagmon, last man), perhaps of Scandinavian origin.
  2. Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish lagg; see leu- in Indo-European roots.
  3. Origin unknown.

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  1. Prob. from Welsh llag, slack, loose, sluggish, languid, = Corn, lac, loose, remiss, = Gaelic lag, feeble; cf. Latin laxus, loose, lax (see lax), languere, be weak or languid: see languid, languish. Icelandic lakra, lag, is apparently connected with lakr, defective, and thus with English lack : see lack.
  2. from lag, a.
  3. Origin obscure.
 

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