jet lag
English edit
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Etymology edit
Possibly coined by Horace Sutton in 1966.[1]
Noun edit
jet lag (usually uncountable, plural jet lags)
- (aviation) A physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight; often the result of disruption to the circadian rhythms of the body.
- Synonyms: jet syndrome, (medicine) circadian dysrhythmia, (medicine) desynchronosis
- 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 1:
- She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien’s theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic.
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physical condition
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References edit
Italian edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from English jet lag.
Noun edit
jet lag m (invariable)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English jet lag.
Noun edit
jet lag m (uncountable)
- jet lag (a physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight)
Spanish edit
Noun edit
jet lag m (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- “jet lag”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014