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  • noun The elapsed time between two events

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Examples

  • But there's a lag time involved and government support could eliminate the lagtime and boost the rate of conversion to those kinds of farming practices and benefit everybody, especially the planet.

    Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: Democratizing Sustainability 2008

  • Dog Cza ', him all time gone, too; him no like lagtime -- all same Miste' Laglange.

    The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • In summer and fall, the lagtime is at a minimum; in winter and spring, at a maximum.

    Grim's Hall Texan99 2010

  • The lagtime, here, appears to depend (at minimum) on the time required to betray a pledge.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • The 50-minute lagtime is only an average, which varies between 25 and 75 minutes depending on the season.

    Grim's Hall Texan99 2010

  • Hard-core broadcasters may want to check out a head-to-head smackdown with a pair of Nokia N95s, in which Ustream got the jump on Qik in minimizing lagtime between shooting video and seeing it live on the web.

    VentureBeat Brent F. Stinski 2009

  • I forsee this being more popular than OnLive though, because of the simple fact that there will always be lagtime when playing a game on a remote server.

    The Movie Blog 2009

  • Quicktime / iTunes movies have significant lagtime when trying to play, stop, or skip a movie (and this has NEVER happened before)

    Discussions: Message List - root 2009

  • There is always a lagtime between the stock market's actions and the economy's actions.

    Safehaven 2009

  • In addition to contact time, we must ensure that the "prep-lagtime" has an average length of 90 seconds Photo courtesy of Flickr. com from start of tactile stimulation.

    CattleNetwork 2008

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