netlag

noun

Etymology

From net + lag.

Definitions

  1. The delay arising from communication between networked computers.

    • 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[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for netlag. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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