Delay
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In its general sense, delay refers to a lapse of time. In other contexts, it may refer to one of many topics:
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[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
[edit] Physics and electronics
- Propagation delay, a measurement of the time for a signal to reach its destination
- Delay line, 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] Music
- Delay a punk-pop band from Columbus, Ohio signed to Plan-It-X Records
- Delay is a band from Estonia.
[edit] Transportation
- Delay, doing something later than was scheduled (e.g. in a timetable), often with overtones of thereby causing inconvenience (see public transport timetables, airline timetables, traffic order, schedule, sailing list etc.)
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