simple past tense and past participle of lag

delay in communications or information processing caused by signal propagation being limited by the speed of light.

(transitive or intransitive) To fail to keep pace; to fail to keep up with one's peers; to achieve or impress less than one's peers; to move more slowly than one's peers.

(linguistics, now deprecated) The retention of certain lexical items in a colonial variety of a language which have fallen into disuse in the original language.

A period of time between one event and another; a delay.

(aviation) A physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight; often the result of disruption to the circadian rhythms of the body.

(Judaism) The 33rd day of the Omer, celebrated as a holiday

(economics, banking) The amount of time it takes for the government or the central bank to respond to a shock in the economy.

(genetics) a delay in the expression of a phenotype acquired by mutation.

The statistical relation between two facts at two different times