time lag
noun
variants
or less commonly time-lag
plural time lags also time-lags
: an interval of time between two related phenomena or events
… there is a time lag between the companies' statements and the data captured in the department's jobs report.—Sarah Chaney Cambon
Given the usual time lags in book publishing and the rush of recent discoveries, the book is extraordinarily up to date …—James Cornell
There is frequently a time-lag between word and thing. Thus atomic bomb was coined by H. G. Wells in 1914, though the first explosion took place at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in 1945.—Geoffrey Hughes
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