Delay
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Delay may refer to:
[edit] Generally
[edit] Law
- To delay payment of a debt, a crime in the United Kingdom
[edit] Telecommunications and broadcasting
- Broadcast delay, a practice of time-shifting transmissions
- Delay encoding, a radio transmission technique
- Network delay, the delay of an IP packet within an IP network
- Lag, a term used when a real-time application fails to respond in a timely fashion
[edit] Physics and electronics
- Propagation delay, a measurement of the time for a signal to reach its destination
- Delay line (disambiguation) (multiple meanings), one of any technologies for shifting a signal in time
[edit] Audio
- Delay (audio effect), a technology for producing delayed playback of an audio signal
[edit] Computer science
- Delay (programming), a programming language construct for delaying evaluation of an expression
[edit] Sports
- Delay (game), official ruling to abnormally stop a sporting event once it has begun due to circumstances that prevent fairness of play, such as inclement weather.
[edit] See also
- Tom DeLay, politician
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