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Definition: Tailing factor. The tailing factor is a measure of peak tailing. It is defined as the distance from the front slope of the peak to the back slope divided by twice the distance from the center line of the peak to the front slope, with all measurements made at 5% of the maximum peak height.t is defined as the distance from the front slope of the peak to the back slope divided by twice the distance from the center line of the peak to the front slope, with all measurements made at 5% of the maximum peak height.
tail wagging the dog. Situation in which an apparently insignificant or powerless entity controls the larger system of which it is a part. The phrase âthe tail that wags the dogâ dates to the turn of the last century. In 1907, it appeared in Von Arnum's Fraulein Schmidt. F. Scott Fitzgerald used it in 1935. The meaning is quite obvious: the subsidiary part controls the major part.