In its general sense, delay refers to a lapse of time. In other contexts, it may refer to one of many topics:
Generally
Law
Telecommunications and broadcasting
- Broadcast delay In radio and television, broadcast delay refers to the practice of intentionally delaying broadcast of live material. A short delay is often used to prevent profanity or other undesirable material from making it to air, including more mundane problems such as technical malfunctions or coughing. In this instance, it is often referred to as a seven-, 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 Lag is a common word meaning to fail to keep up or to fall behind. In real-time applications, the term is used when the application fails to respond in a timely fashion to inputs. It is also often used in online video games to mean the game not being able to properly maintain the game's speed
Physics and electronics
- Propagation delay Propagation delay is a technical term that can have a different meaning depending on the context. It can relate to networking, electronics or physics. In general it is the length of time taken for the quantity of interest to reach its destination, a measurement of the time for a signal to reach its destination
- Delay line This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C", one of any technologies for shifting a signal in time
Audio
- Delay (audio effect) Delay is an audio effect which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time. The delayed signal may either be played back multiple times, or played back into the recording again, to create the sound of a repeating, decaying echo, a technology for producing delayed playback of an audio signal
Computer science
- Delay (programming), a programming language construct for delaying evaluation of an expression
Music
- Delay a punk-pop band from Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio, fourth largest city in the American Midwest, and the state's third largest metropolitan area, behind Cincinnati and Cleveland. It is the county seat of Franklin County. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and signed to Plan-It-X Records
- Delay is a band from Estonia Estonia /ɛsˈtoʊniə/ (Estonian: Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariik), is a country in the Baltic Region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by the Russian Federation (338.6 km). The territory of.
Transportation
- Delay, doing something later than was scheduled (e.g. in a timetable A timetable or schedule is an organized list, usually set out in tabular form, providing information about a series of arranged events: in particular, the time at which it is planned these events will take place), often with overtones of thereby causing inconvenience (see public transport timetables, airline timetables Airline timetables are booklets that many airlines worldwide use to inform passengers of several different things, such as schedules, fleet, security, in-flight entertainment, food menu, restriction and phone contact information, traffic order, schedule A public transport timetable is a listing of the times that public transport services arrive and depart specified locations. Timetables are published in various forms from comprehensive books covering an entire system or continent to small cards that list the departure times from a single location, sailing list etc.)
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