Delay

In its general sense, delay refers to a lapse of time. In other contexts, it may refer to one of many topics:

Law

Propagation delay, a measurement of the time for a signal to reach its destination
Delay line, one of any technologies for shifting a signal in time

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

Delay, an abnormity of adherence to timetable (see public transport timetables, airline timetables, traffic order, schedule, sailing list etc. The Theft Act 1978 supplemented the earlier Deception offences in English law contained in sections 15 and 16 of the Theft Act 1968 by reforming some aspects of those In Telecommunications delay encoding is the encoding of binary Data to form a two-level signal such that (a a "0" causes no change Network delay in an IP Network is generally the round trip delay for an IP packet within an IP network. Networking Propagation delay is defined as how long it takes for a certain amount of bytes to transfered over a medium 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 In Computer science, delayed evaluation is used in some programming languages to delay the evaluation on an expression until its value is needed See also Timetable A public transport timetable is a listing of the times that public transport services arrive and depart specified locations Airline timetables are booklets that many Airlines worldwide use to inform passengers of several different things such as schedules fleet security in-flight entertainment )

previously unexpected period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying.

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