Delay (from Latin: dilatio) may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

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Delay 1968 ''Delay 1968'', or just ''Delay'' (as the Super Audio CD, SACD version is titled), is an archival compilation album by German experimental rock band Can (band), Can during its work with singer Malcolm Mooney comprising previously unissued early r ...

'', a 1981 album by German experimental rock band Can * '' The Delay'', a 2012 Uruguayan film

People

B. H. DeLay Beverly Homer DeLay (August 12, 1891 – July 4, 1923) was an American aviator who pioneered many of the popular stunts used in the early barnstorming air-shows. He soon adapted them for the movies, where he appeared with top Hollywood stars. De ...

(1891–1923), American aviator and actor *

Dorothy DeLay Dorothy DeLay (March 31, 1917 – March 24, 2002) was an American violin instructor, primarily at the Juilliard School, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Cincinnati. Life Dorothy DeLay was born on March 31, 1917, in Medicine L ...

(1917–2002), American violin instructor *

Florence Delay Florence Delay (born 19 March 1941 in Paris) is a French academician and actress. Biography The daughter of Marie-Madeleine Carrez and Jean Delay, Delay studied at the Lycée Jean de La Fontaine and then the Sorbonne. In 1962, she played the tit ...

(born 1941), French academician and actor *

Jan Delay Jan Phillip Eißfeldt (born 25 August 1976), known professionally as Jan Delay, is a German rapper and singer whose stylistic range includes mainly hip hop, reggae, dub and funk. An accomplished solo artist, he became known to the public as ...

(born 1976), German musician *

Jason Delay Jason Thomas Delay (born March 7, 1995) is an American professional baseball catcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. He made his MLB debut in 2022. Amateur career Delay attended Northview High School in Johns Creek, Georgia, and Vanderbi ...

(born 1995), American baseball player *

Jean Delay Jean Delay (14 November 1907, Bayonne – 29 May 1987, Paris) was a French psychiatrist, neurologist, writer, and a member of the Académie française (Chair 17). His assistant Pierre Deniker conducted a test of chlorpromazine on the male menta ...

(1907–1987), French psychiatrist, neurologist, and writer * Paul deLay (1952–2007), American blues musician * Tom DeLay (born 1947), American politician *

Vladislav Delay Vladislav Delay is the most frequently used pseudonym of Sasu Ripatti (born 1976), a Finnish electronic musician. He has also recorded as Luomo, Sistol, Uusitalo, Conoco, and Ripatti, working in styles such as minimal techno, glitch, and house. ...

(born 1976), Finnish musician

Science and technology

Computing and telecommunication

Delay (audio effect) Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time. When the delayed playback is mixed with the live audio, it creates an echo-like effect, whereby the or ...

, a technology for producing delayed playback of an audio signal *

Delay (programming) In computer science, future, promise, delay, and deferred refer to constructs used for synchronizing program execution in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown, ...

, a programming language construct for delaying evaluation of an expression *

Analog delay line An analog delay line is a network of electrical components connected in cascade, where each individual element creates a time difference between its input and output. It operates on analog signals whose amplitude varies continuously. In the c ...

, used to delay a signal *

Broadcast delay In radio and television, broadcast delay is an intentional delay when broadcasting live material, technically referred to as a deferred live. Such a delay may be to prevent mistakes or unacceptable content from being broadcast. Longer delays las ...

, a practice of time-shifting transmissions *

Delay differential equation In mathematics, delay differential equations (DDEs) are a type of differential equation in which the derivative of the unknown function at a certain time is given in terms of the values of the function at previous times. DDEs are also called time ...

, 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 Delay-line memory is a form of computer memory, now obsolete, that was used on some of the earliest digital computers. Like many modern forms of electronic computer memory, delay-line memory was a refreshable memory, but as opposed to modern ran ...

, 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 In computer architecture, a delay slot is an instruction slot being executed without the effects of a preceding instruction. The most common form is a single arbitrary instruction located immediately after a branch instruction on a RISC or DSP ...

, 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 A digital delay generator (also known as digital-to-time converter) is a piece of electronic test equipment that provides precise delays for triggering, syncing, delaying, and gating events. These generators are used in many experiments, controls ...

, 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 End-to-end delay or one-way delay (OWD) refers to the time taken for a packet to be transmitted across a network from source to destination. It is a common term in IP network monitoring, and differs from round-trip time (RTT) in that only path in ...

, 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 In signal processing, group delay and phase delay are delay times experienced by a signal's various frequency components when the signal passes through a system that is linear time-invariant (LTI), such as a microphone, coaxial cable, amplifier, ...

, time delay of the amplitude envelopes of the various sinusoidal components of a signal *

Network delay Network delay is a design and performance characteristic of a telecommunications network. It specifies the latency for a bit of data to travel across the network from one communication endpoint to another. It is typically measured in multiples ...

, the delay of an IP packet within an IP network *

Propagation delay Propagation delay is the time duration taken for a signal to reach its destination. It can relate to networking, electronics or physics. ''Hold time'' is the minimum interval required for the logic level to remain on the input after triggering ed ...

, a measurement of the time for a signal to reach its destination *

Queuing delay In telecommunication and computer engineering, the queuing delay or queueing delay is the time a job waits in a queue until it can be executed. It is a key component of network delay. In a switched network, queuing delay is the time between the ...

, or queueing delay, the time a job waits in a queue until it can be executed *

Satellite delay Satellite delay is the noticeable latency due to the limited speed of light, when sending data to and from satellites, especially distant geosynchronous satellites. Bouncing a signal off a geosynchronous satellite takes about a quarter of a secon ...

, the noticeable latency, which occurs due to the speed of light, when sending data to and from satellites *

Transmission delay In a network based on packet switching, transmission delay (or store-and-forward delay, also known as packetization delay) is the amount of time required to push all the packet's bits into the wire. In other words, this is the delay caused by the ...

, 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 In mathematics, a bi-directional delay line is a numerical analysis technique used in computer simulation for solving ordinary differential equations by converting them to hyperbolic equations. In this way an explicit solution scheme is obtained wit ...

, 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 Delayed gratification, or deferred gratification, is the resistance to the temptation of an immediate pleasure in the hope of obtaining a valuable and long-lasting reward in the long-term. In other words, delayed gratification describes the pro ...

, the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward and wait for a later reward *

Shapiro time delay The Shapiro time delay effect, or gravitational time delay effect, is one of the four classic solar-system tests of general relativity. Radar signals passing near a massive object take slightly longer to travel to a target and longer to return th ...

, a test used to confirm general relativity *

Speech delay Speech delay, also known as alalia, refers to a delay in the development or use of the mechanisms that produce speech. Speech – as distinct from language – is the actual process of making sounds, using such organs and structures as the lung ...

, also known as alalia, refers to a delay in the development or use of the mechanisms that produce speech

Sports

* 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