Delay

Contents 1 Generally 2 Law 3 Telecommunications and broadcasting 4 Physics and electronics 5 Audio 6 Computer science 7 Sports 8 See also

Delay may refer to:

Generally

• Latency (disambiguation)
• Response time (disambiguation)

Law

• To delay payment of a debt, a crime in the United Kingdom

Telecommunications and broadcasting

• Broadcast delay, 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, a term used when a real-time application fails to respond in a timely fashion

Physics and electronics

• Propagation delay, 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), 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.

See also

• Tom DeLay, politician

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