jet lag
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English
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Etymology
Possibly coined by Horace Sutton in 1966.[1]
Noun
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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Translations
physical condition
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References
- ^ Maksel, Rebecca (2008 June) “When did the term “jet lag” come into use?”, in Air & Space/Smithsonian
Italian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English jet lag.
Noun
jet lag m (invariable)
- jet lag
- 2007, Di Thomas Kohnstamm, Venezuela, →ISBN:
- Per evitare il jet lag bevete molti liquidi (non alcolici) e mangiate cibi leggeri.
- In order to avoid jet lag, drink lots of (non-alcoholic) liquid and eat lightly.
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English jet lag.
Noun
jet lag m (uncountable)
- jet lag (a physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight)
Spanish
Noun
jet lag m (uncountable)
Further reading
- “jet lag”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28