lag

From Glossary of Meteorology
  1. That part of the difference between the output of an instrument and its input that is due to the failure of the instrument to respond instantaneously to variations of the input signal.

It is a function of the instrument's time constant.
See time lag.

  1. A time displacement of a time series.

    See autocorrelation.

  2. See delay.
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