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Lag
Delay or stutter, usually caused by a slow network connection.
Lag is noticeable delay in a game. In online play it usually means network latency: the time data takes to travel between players and the server. Players also use it loosely for low frame rates.
I shot first, but with this lag the server says I missed.
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