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Examples of time lag in a Sentence
There's a time lag between when you see a stop sign and when your foot steps on the brake.
Recent Examples on the Web
The hope for Democratic strategists is that voters’ negative feelings about the economy result mostly from a time lag — and that memories of the rapid inflation of 2022 and early 2023 will soon fade.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Conventional ECUs suffer a time lag of 10 to 20 milliseconds, a figure BMW says its new proprietary box of tricks reduces to one millisecond.
—Jason Barlow, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
Because there was an unpredictable time lag whenever one machine communicated with another, simply timestamping bits of code that went between computers was not good enough to keep things in order.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
That could reflect a time lag between companies’ statements and the data captured in the Labor Department’s reports.
—Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
And the housing measures enter the CPI with a time lag, further complicating our analysis of inflation.
—Richard McGahey, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
Such a time lag was found in early Keynesian structural models of the economy, later non-theoretical analyses (vector auto-regressions) and most of the latest econometric models (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models).
—Bill Conerly, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
Paint, stickers, and toys that glow in the dark after a period of exposure to light exploit this time lag.
—Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
The smaller engine's 7.2-second 60-mph time lags 0.5 behind the number for the all-wheel-drive V-6, and the same was true with a rolling start in our 5-to-60-mph test.
—Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 24 Mar. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1892, in the meaning defined above
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“Time lag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20lag. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.
Kids Definition
time lag
noun
: the period of time between two related happenings (as a cause and its effect)
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