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lagometer en · NOUN

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1. A display of the amount of latency (lag) experienced in an online game.
   • Lag, in particular, is a serious problem in the larger groups; LambdaMOO even introduced a '"lagometer" on screen at one point. 2006, David Crystal, “The language of virtual worlds”, in Language and the Internet, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 184:
2. A device that measures any other sort of lag.
   • The temperature of the solution in the padder and of the water in washing boxes is controlled by means of a lagometer. 1978, Fedor Ivanovich Sadov, Mikhail Vladimirovich Korchagin, A. Matetsky, Chemical Technology of Fibrous Materials, Mir Publishers, page 538:
   • The lagometer has been designed by Siemens Bros. and Co. for measuring time constants of relays. 1940, “The Lagometer”, in Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, volume 44, number 2, page 12:

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