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lazily

5.4

In a way that waits to load or work out something until it is needed

adverb
/ˈleɪzɪli/

Specialized

: de forma diferida

With lazily loaded components, the website feels faster and more responsive to users.

Examples

It is also true that convergent evolution is sometimes an excuse to lazily follow the steps of someone who has already reached a certain point in design evolution.

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By loading images lazily, the application can save bandwidth and improve performance.
So loading lazily is a is a nice way to to prevent that memory usage from happening.
Class loading in general happens rather lazily in Java, for good reasons.

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The system lazily retrieves data only when the user requests it, reducing initial load times.

Antonyms

immediately

∞ 1.0

At once without waiting

promptly

98 2.1

Without delay or at the planned time

How Eager

eagerly

67 1.3

on demand

23 3.2

lazily

Specialized

5.4

Surface Forms

lazily positive

Morphology

lazily = lazy (semi-transparent) = lazy + ly

The adverbial form is clear, but the computing sense ('delay action until needed') is a domain-specific metaphorical extension that may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Lazily in computing uses the everyday word lazy, and a helpful way to remember it is 'delay until needed'. So when a computer does something lazily, it waits to load or calculate it only when it is really needed, to save time or memory.