A brief interval.
A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.
Delay; latency.
One who lags; that which comes in last.
A bird, the greylag.
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
A prisoner, a criminal.
Late.
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
To respond slowly.
To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
To cause to lag; to slacken.
To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer).