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lazily

lazily

5.4
In a way that waits to load or work out something until it is needed
  • adverb
  • /ˈleɪzɪli/
  • Specialized
translation icon : 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.