Delay

Delay (from Latin: dilatio) may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

Science and technology

Computing and telecommunication

Delay (audio effect), a technology for producing delayed playback of an audio signal
Delay (programming), a programming language construct for delaying evaluation of an expression
Analog delay line, used to delay a signal
Broadcast delay, a practice of time-shifting transmissions
Delay differential equation which describes or governs the dynamics of a time-delay system in terms of its values at previous times
Delay encoding, a radio transmission technique
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 slot, a computer instruction slot that gets executed without the effects of a preceding instruction
Delay-gradient congestion control, a class of network congestion control algorithms, which react to the differences in round-trip delay time (RTT)
Delay-locked loop (DLL), is a digital electronic circuit similar to a phase-locked loop (PLL)
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
End-to-end delay, or one-way delay (OWD), 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
Network delay, the delay of an IP packet within an IP network
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
Transmission delay, store-and-forward delay or packetization delay, the network delay caused by the data-rate of the link

Other uses in science and technology

Bi-directional delay line, a numerical analysis technique used in computer simulation for solving ordinary differential equations by converting them to hyperbolic equations
Delay composition, delay charge or delay train, a pyrotechnic chemical mixture used to delay the firing of an explosion (delay-action bomb)
Delayed gratification, the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward
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

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

Other uses

Delaying payment of a debt, a crime in the United Kingdom, under the Theft Act 1978

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