Delay
Encyclopedia
Law
- To delay payment of a debt, a crime in the United Kingdom
Telecommunications and broadcasting
- Broadcast delayBroadcast delayIn 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, bloopers, violence, or other undesirable material from making it to air, including more mundane problems such as technical...
, a practice of time-shifting transmissions - Delay encodingDelay encodingIn telecommunications, delay encoding is the encoding of binary data to form a two-level signal such that a "0" causes no change of signal level unless it is followed by another "0" in which case a transition to the other level takes place at the end of the first bit period; and a "1" causes a...
, a radio transmission technique - Network delayNetwork delayNetwork delay is an important design and performance characteristic of a computer network or telecommunications network. The delay of a network specifies how long it takes for a bit of data to travel across the network from one node or endpoint to another. It is typically measured in multiples or...
, the delay of an IP packet within an IP network - LagLagLag 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...
, a term used when a real-time application fails to respond in a timely fashion
Physics and electronics
- Propagation delayPropagation delayPropagation delay is a technical term that can have a different meaning depending on the context. It can relate to networking, electronics or physics...
, 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
Audio
- Delay (audio effect)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.-Early delay...
, a technology for producing delayed playback of an audio signal
Computer science
- Delay (programming), a programming language construct for delaying evaluation of an expression
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.