Lag (disambiguation)

Lag refers to slower response time (or latency), and to delays experienced in computing, communications, and engineering. (see also Lag (online gaming)).

Lag may also refer to:

• Lag (cue sports), brief pre-game competition to determine which player will go first
• Lag, the time between tasks in project plans, in project management
• Jet lag
• Lag screw or lag bolt
• Lead-lag compensator, a component in a control system
• Turbo lag
• Lag, a very long putt in golf
• Łąg, Poland
• Lag Seeing, the protagonist in the anime Tegami Bachi
• Lag (company), a French guitar maker
• Lag, British slang for inmate (prisoner) in a correctional facility
• Lag, incubation time
• Lag time of medical diagnosis
• Lag, a measure for spatial dependence in a sampling variogram
• Distributed lag in econometrics, a modelling structure in which a variable is influenced in part by its own prior values
• Lag deposit, a geological unit of material deposited from some selective process

Lagging is mainly used in the following senses:

• Lagging indicator, an economic indicator that reacts slowly to economic changes, and therefore has little predictive value
• Lagging (epidemiology), excluding the exposure shortly before an outcome
• Lagging, building insulation wrapped around hot or cold water pipes to conserve heat or to protect from freezing.

LAG may refer to

• LAG Motorcoach, a bus and trailer manufacturer in Bree, Belgium
• La Grange (Amtrak station)
• Latin America Solidarity Organisation in Norway, Latin-Amerika gruppene i Norge (LAG)
• Left-associative grammar, a generative grammar formalism
• Ligue d'Athlétisme de la Guyane, the governing body for the sport of athletics in French Guiana
• Lines of Arrested Growth, also known as Harris lines
• Link aggregate group, multiple computer network cables/ports used in parallel
• Local Action Group, (Leader+ EU development program)
• Lokalbahn AG, a former German private railway company based in Bavaria
• LA Galaxy, an American soccer (association football) team
• Loose-aggressive, a technique of poker strategy