Delay
Appearance
Delay (from Latin: dilatio) may refer to:
Law
- To delay payment of a debt, a crime in the United Kingdom
Science and technology
- Analog delay line, used to delay a signal
- Bi-directional delay line, a numerical analysis technique used in computer simulation for solving ordinary differential equations by converting them to hyperbolic equations
- Broadcast delay, a practice of time-shifting transmissions
- Delay (audio effect), a technology for producing delayed playback of an audio signal
- Delay differential equation which describes or governs the dynamics of a time-delay system in terms of its values at previous times
- Delay composition, delay charge or delay train, a pyrotechnic chemical mixture used to delay the firing of an explosion (delay-action bomb)
- Delay encoding, a radio transmission technique
- Delay-gradient congestion control, a class of network congestion control algorithms, which react to the differences in round-trip delay time (RTT)
- Delayed gratification, the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward
- Delay line (disambiguation)
- Delay line memory, a type of random access memory
- Delay line oscillator, a form of electronic oscillator that uses a delay line as its principal timing element
- Delay-locked loop (DLL), is a digital electronic circuit similar to a phase-locked loop (PLL)
- Delay (programming), a programming language construct for delaying evaluation of an expression
- Delay slot, a computer instruction slot that gets executed without the effects of a preceding instruction
- Digital delay generator or digital-to-time converter, a piece of electronic test equipment that provides precise delays for triggering, syncing, delaying and gating events
- Echo
- End-to-end delay, the time taken for a packet to be transmitted across a network from source to destination
- Group delay and phase delay, time delay of the amplitude envelopes of the various sinusoidal components of a signal
- Lag, a term used when a real-time application fails to respond in a timely fashion
- Network delay, the delay of an IP packet within an IP network
- One-way delay (OWD), same as End-to-end delay (above)
- Propagation delay, a measurement of the time for a signal to reach its destination
- Queuing delay or queueing delay, the time a job waits in a queue until it can be executed
- Satellite delay, the noticeable latency which occurs due to the speed of light, when sending data to and from satellites
- Shapiro time delay, a test used to confirm general relativity
- Speech delay, also known as alalia, refers to a delay in the development or use of the mechanisms that produce speech
- Time dilation, relativistic effect between two events occurring in different reference frames or gravitational fields
- Transmission delay, store-and-forward delay or packetization delay, the network delay caused by the data-rate of the link
Entertainment and sports
- Delay (game), an official decision to stop a sporting event after commencement
- Delay of game, an action in a sports game in which a player or team deliberately stalls the game
- Delay 1968, a 1981 album by German experimental rock band Can
- The Delay, a 2012 Uruguayan film
People
- B. H. DeLay (1891–1923), American aviator and actor
- Dorothy DeLay (1917–2002), American violin instructor
- Florence Delay (born 1941), French academician and actor
- Jan Delay (born 1976), German musician
- Jean Delay (1907–1987), French psychiatrist, neurologist, and writer
- Paul deLay (1952–2007), American blues musician
- Tom DeLay (born 1947), American politician
- Vladislav Delay (born 1976), Finnish musician