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Meaning of netlag | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

The delay arising from communication between networked computers.

uncountable

Examples

“Unknown thinking, typing, and netlag times make it impossible to tell [whether a participant in online chat is fully attentive].”
“If our test script is deployed live on a faraway web server, with netlag we could fairly easily click the button twice before the response came back[…]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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