LAGGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lagging mean? 

• LAGGING (noun)
  The noun LAGGING has 1 sense:

1. insulation used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat

  Familiarity information: LAGGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAGGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insulation used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("lagging" is a kind of...):

insulant; insulation (insulating material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity)

Derivation:

lag (cover with lagging to prevent heat loss)

 Context examples 

On the leading strand, replication occurs continuously in a 5 to 3 direction, whereas on the lagging strand, DNA replication occurs discontinuously by synthesis and joining of short Okazaki fragments.

(DNA Replication Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

This protein is involved in the biosynthesis of RNA primers for the Okazaki fragments made during DNA replication of the lagging strand.

(DNA Primase Small Subunit, NCI Thesaurus)

DNA polymerase alpha is most active in dividing cells, and is primarily involved with lagging strand synthesis.

(DNA Polymerase Alpha, NCI Thesaurus)

However, walking speed and stride length later in the test period decreased significantly in people who reported more cognitive fatigue, but not in response to lagging physical energy levels.

(Mental, Not Physical, Fatigue Affects Seniors' Walking Ability, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I followed with lagging step, and thoughts busily bent on discovering a means of extrication; but he himself looked so composed and so grave also, I became ashamed of feeling any confusion: the evil—if evil existent or prospective there was—seemed to lie with me only; his mind was unconscious and quiet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)