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Laggy vs Lagging - What's the difference?

laggy | lagging |

As adjectives the difference between laggy and lagging

is that laggy is having a delayed response to a change in the factors influencing it while lagging is falling behind, not keeping up the pace.

As a noun lagging is

the covering of something with strips of felt, wood etc, either as insulation or for protection.

As a verb lagging is

present participle of lang=en.

laggy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having a delayed response to a change in the factors influencing it.
  • Gasoline prices usually show a laggier response to crude-oil price reduction than to crude-oil price increases.
  • (video games, informal) Tending to lag, or respond slowly because of network latency.
  • I've given up trying to play on that laggy server.

    lagging

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • falling behind, not keeping up the pace
  • Occurring after; indicating the later phase of
  • *
  • Coordinate terms

    * (occurring after) leading, concurrent

    Derived terms

    * lagging indicator

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The covering of something with strips of felt, wood etc, either as insulation or for protection
  • The material so used
  • Verb

    (head)