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

See also

• Delay line (disambiguation)
• Echo
• Laches (equity), unreasonable delay in pursuing a legal action
• Lag, a term used when a real-time application fails to respond in a timely fashion
• Latency (disambiguation)
• Procrastination
• Response time (disambiguation)
• Sound
• Speed
• Time
• Time dilation, relativistic effect between two events occurring in different reference frames or gravitational fields