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a. To place planks, slabs, or small timbers over horizontal, or behind
upright, members of mine timber sets to form a ceiling or wall.
Long
b. In flotation, any retardation of an output with respect to the causal
input. Fuerstenau
c. A flattish piece of wood or other material to wedge the timber or steel
supports against the ground and to secure the area between the supports.
See also: lid; wedge. Nelson
d. To protect a shaft or level from falling rock by lining it with timber
(lagging). CTD
e. Time required for circulation liquid to travel downward from the drill
pump through the drill string to the bit or upward from the bottom of the
borehole to the collar. Long
f. The lapse of time between the occurrence of an event or condition and
its detection on a recording device. Long
g. To provide or cover with lags; as, to lag a boiler with a nonconductor;
to lag timbers in a mine. See also: lags; lagging.
Standard, 2; Fay
h. A distance class interval used for variogram computation.
Source:
Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms
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