The statistical relation between two facts at two different times

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

(genetics) The strand of DNA that is replicated from the 5' to the 3' direction.

A thick padded cover for a water heater used to keep heat in.

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

plural of lagging strand

plural of lagging jacket

(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.

simple past tense and past participle of lag behind