Time during which some action is awaited.
1But much of a time lag, the way it is with ghosts.
2I'm now receiving my sensory input with a one-hundred-and-twenty- millisecond time lag.
3The time lag puzzled him; why had he waited so long?
4Typically, when you crunch such enormous amounts of information, there's a time lag.
5From the time lag of the echo, it can calculate the bogey's distance.
6Gas prices traditionally follow oil prices with a time lag of about six months.
7Continental European gas prices follow those of heating oil with a certain time lag.
8There followed an appreciable time lag, and then its possible significance occurred to me.
9But it's slower to get deals done and that time lag is a challenge.
10And you probably would have a time lag before you knew anything at all.
11Even since the alert, there had been a time lag.
12Historically there's been a time lag of about 20 yrs.
13He said that there is usually a time lag between economic events and unemployment changes.
14That's a time lag of twelve minutes right now.
15That's why building in a time lag could be advantageous and allay anxiety, she said.
16Because of the slight time lag, it is difficult to interject without disrupting the flow.
Translations for time lag