| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. By delays.[Websters]
2. In a retarded manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a prolonged or protracted manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a handicapped manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a gaping manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a frustrating manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a continuing or enduring manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a damaging or disadvantaged manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Adverbial inflection of the verb-based adjective delaying.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Base (Delaying) | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb delay.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (delay) | 1. Cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform".[Wordnet]. 2. Act later than planned, scheduled, or required; "Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered".[Wordnet]. 3. Stop or halt.[Wordnet]. 4. Slow the growth or development of.[Wordnet]. 5. Stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!".[Wordnet]. 6. To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.[Websters]. 7. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.[Websters]. 8. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.[Websters]. 9. To allay; to temper.[Websters]. 10. Base verb from the following inflections: delaying, delayed, delays, delayer, delayers, delayingly and delayedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DELAYINGLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Note: Delayingly \De*lay"ing*ly\, adverb By delays. [Rare]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: delay
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To prolong the time of acting, or proceeding; to put off; to defer. My lord delayeth his coming. Matt. 14.. | 2: [Verb] To retard; to stop, detain or hinder for a time; to restrain motion, or render it slow; as, the mail is delated by bad roads. Thyrsis, whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal.. | 3: [Verb] To allay.. | 4: [Verb] To linger; to move slow; or to stop for a time. There are certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of ideas, beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten.. | 5: [Noun] A lingering; stay; stop.. | 6: [Noun] A putting off or deferring; procrastination; as, the delay of trial is not to be imputed to the plaintiff.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Administration | A device used to obtain detonation of charges at separate times. An electric blasting cap which explodes at a set interval after current is passed through it. (references) | ||
| Aerospace | 1: A delay is incurred when any action is taken by a controller that prevents an aircraft from proceeding normally to its destination for an interval of 15 minutes or more. (references) | 2: The time (or equivalent distance) displacement of some characteristic of a wave relative to the same characteristic of a reference wave; that is, the difference in phase between the two waves. Compare lag.In one-way radio propagation, for instance, the phase delay of the reflected wave over the direct wave is a measure of the extra distance traveled by the reflected wave in reaching the same receiver. (references) | |
| Business | 1) The amount of time by which an event is retarded. 2) The time between the instant at which a given event occurs and the instant at which a related aspect of that event occurs. Note 1: The events, relationships, and aspects of the entity being delayed must be precisely specified. Note 2: Total delay may be demonstrated by the impulse response of a device or system. Note 3: In analog systems, total delay is described in terms of the transfer functions in the frequency domain. Synonym delay time. 3) In radar, the electronic delay of the start of the time base used to select a particular segment of the total. (references) | ||
| Dream Interpretation | To be delayed in a dream, warns you of the scheming of enemies to prevent your progress. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Electrical Engineering | 1: A property of a device that makes a change of state or of output signal occur later than the change of input signal that causes it. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: The amount of time by which a signal is delayed or an event retarded. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: The time interval between the application of a step-function excitation and the instant when the response first attains half the steady-state magnitude. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Energy | Delays are incurred when any action is taken by a controller that prevents an aircraft from proceeding normally to its destination for an interval of 15 minutes or more. This includes actions to delay departing, enroute, or arriving aircraft as well as actions taken to delay aircraft at departing airports due to conditions en route or at destination airports. (references) | ||
| Labor | Waiting or idleness, or any activity which is not necessary for the method of work on the operation being charted. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Law | DELAY, civil law. 1. The time allowed either by law or by agreement of the parties to do something. 2. The law allows a delay, for a party who has been summoned to appear, to make defense, to appeal; it admits of a delay during which and action may be brought, certain rights exercised, and the like. 3. By the agreement of the parties there may be a delay in the payment of a debt, the fulfillment of a contract, &c. Vide Code, 3, 11, 4; Nov. 69, c. 2 Merl. Rep. h. (references) | ||
| Mining | A distinct pause of predetermined time between detonation or initiation pulses, to permit the firing of explosive charges separately. (references) | ||
| Physics | The time between the establishment of an undesired condition and the start of corrective motion of a control rod. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Post & Telecom | A speech performance characteristic. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Transportation | 1: The time consumed while traffic or a specified component of traffic is impeded in its movement by some element over which it has no control. Usually expressed in seconds per vehicle. (Highway Capacity Manual, 65, p. 16). Source: European Union. (references) | 2: The time lost by a person or a vehicle during travel due to circumstances which impede the desirable movement of traffic. It is the travel time difference between congested and free-flow travel times. (references) | 3: There are three major types of delay: a) direct en route delay-incurred by passenger already on-board a vehicle which is directly impeded by a vehicle/system failure; b) indirect en route delay-arising from an otherwise operational vehicle being slowed or stopped by a traffic backlog arising from elsewhere on the system; c) station delay-incurred by passenger waiting at a station for a delayed vehicle to arrive. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] previously unexpected period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying. (references) | 2: [Verb] To put off until a later time; to distract. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: delay
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Bi-directional delay line | Bi-directional delay line is a numerical 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 with highly robust numerical properties. (references) | ||
| Construction delay | Construction delays are slow downs in traffic (sometimes slowing to a complete standstill) required for a construction project to complete some stage of the job. (references) | ||
| Contamination delay | In electronics and digital circuits, the contamination delay is the amount of time starting from when the input to a logic gate becomes stable and valid to the time that the output of that logic gate begins to change. The sum of contamination delay and the amount of time it takes for the output of the logic gate to become stable and valid is the propagation delay. (references) | ||
| Delay (electric guitar) | Delay is an electric guitar effect which gives an echo when playing. It is different from reverb, which notes fades. Delay is played in lower volume, how many times depends on the controller. Delay can also be used for various Midi keyboards and many other kind of instruments. (references) | ||
| Delay insensitive circuit | A delay insensitive circuit is a type of asynchronous circuit which performs a logic operation often within a computing processor chip. Instead of using clock signals or other global control signals, the sequencing of computation in delay insensitive circuit is determined by the data flow. (references) | ||
| Delay Insensitive Minterm Synthesis | Invented by David E. Muller, the DIMS (Delay Insensitive Minterm Synthesis) system is an asynchronous design methodology making the least possible timing assumptions. Assuming only the Quasi-Delay-Insensitive delay model the generated designs need little if any timing hazard testing. The basis for DIMS is the use of two wires to represent each bit of data. This is know as a Dual-Rail data encoding. Parts of the system communicate using the early four-phase asynchronous protocol. (references) | ||
| Delay jitter | Jitter = -10 msec. This is referring as dispersion. (references) | ||
| Delay line | A circuit designed to introduce a calculated delay into the transmission of a signal. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Delay line memory | Delay line memory was a form of computer memory used on some of the earliest digital computers, such as the EDSAC and UNIVAC I. (references) | ||
| Delay Locked Loop | A device to reduce clock skew in digital circuits. It is a key recommendation for DDR SDRAM memory (as of 2001). It provides a Data Strobe signal with the validation of data on the pins. The signal is used once for every 16 output operations, providing a more precise location of data as well as a sharper synchronization of incoming messages. Information source : Acer's white paper DDR Memory Technology, 2001. (references) | ||
| Delay Tolerant Networking | Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) is an approach to computer network architecture that seeks to address the technical issues in mobile or extreme environments that lack continuous network connectivity. In a DTN, asynchronous variable-length messages (called bundles) are routed in a store and forward manner between participating nodes over varied network transport technologies (including both IP and non-IP based transports). This architecture therefore operates as an overlay network, providing a new naming architecture based on URIs and coarse-grained class of service offerings. (references) | ||
| End-to-end delay | End-to-end delay refers to the time taken for a packet to be transmitted across a network from source to destination. It is commonly referred in RTSP. (references) | ||
| Language delay | Language delay is a failure to develop language abilities on the usual developmental timetable. Language delay is distinct from speech delay, in which the speech mechanism itself is the locus of delay. Thus, language delay refers specifically to a delay in the development of the underlying knowledge of language, rather than its implementation. (references) | ||
| Operation Northern Delay | On March 26, 2003, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, SETAF's 173rd Airborne Brigade conducted a parachute assault into Northern Iraq. More than 1,000 paratroopers jumped into Bashur Airfield in a historical and critical mission. The operation forced the Iraqi Army to maintain approximately six divisions in the area to protect its northern flank, providing strategic relief for Coalition Forces advancing on Baghdad. (references) | ||
| Queueing delay | In computer engineering, a queueing delay is the time a job waits in a queue until it can be executed. (references) | ||
| Seven Second Delay | Seven Second Delay is a radio show broadcast on radio station WFMU. It is hosted by Ken Freedman and Andy Breckman. The show is described as on air radio stunts. Ken & Andy come up with a typically fairly flimsy concept, normally involving some combination of listeners phoning in and/or prank phone calls which are comical mostly due to their complete failure to be successful ideas. (references) | ||
| Speech delay | Speech delay refers to a delay in the development or use of the mechanisms that produce speech. Speech, as distinct from language, refers to the actual process of making sounds, using such organs and structures as the lungs, vocal cords, mouth, tongue, teeth, etc. Language delay refers to a delay in the development or use of the knowledge of language. (references) | ||
| Standard Delay Format | Standard Delay Format (SDF) is an IEEE standard for the representation and interpretation of timing data for use at any stage of an electronic design process. (references) | ||
| Tape delay (audio effect) | Tape delay, also often referred to as analog delay, is an audio effect whereby an echo can be introduced to an audio signal by mixing it with a delayed version of itself. Because the recording heads and playback heads are separated, the length of the delay can be adjusted by either varying the length of the magnetic tape loop ahead of time or (primarily) by varying the speed of the recording/playback. (references) | ||
| Tape delay (broadcasting) | In radio and television, tape delay refers to the practice of intentionally delaying broadcast of live material. A short delay is often used to prevent profanity or other undesirable material from making it to air, including more mundane problems such as technical malfunctions or coughing. In this instance, it is often referred to as a seven-second delay or profanity delay. Longer delays can also be introduced, as is sometimes done with nationally-broadcast programs in countries with multiple time zones. That can sometimes be simply achieved with a video tape recorder or similar technology. In the context of modern digital video recorders, this can now be considered a class of time shifting. (references) | ||
| Time Delay and Integration | A Time Delay and Integration (TDI) clock is used to synchronize the movement of charged packets in a charge-coupled device (CCD) with that of another movement. For example, in some digital x-ray mammography systems, the x-ray tube and CCD detector move across the breast at a speed V+. At the same time, the CCD detector reads out the information in the opposite direction at speed V-. This compensatory motion essentially freezes the motion of the detected x-ray information. The TDI clock ensures that speed V+ equals V-. (references) | ||
| Tom DeLay | Thomas Dale DeLay (born April 8 1947 in Laredo, Texas) is an American politician from Sugar Land, Texas and a prominent Republican. (references) | ||
| Vladislav Delay | Vladislav Delay is one of the pseudonyms of Sasu Ripatti, a Finnish electronic musician. He has also performed as Luomo, Sistol, Uusitalo and Conoco. (references) | ||
| Without delay | In a punctual manner. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: delay
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Absolute delay | Aerospace | 1. The time interval between the transmission of sequential signals. Also called delay.2. Specifically, in loran, the time interval between transmission of a signal from the A-station and transmission of the next signal from the B-station. (references) | |
| Absolute delay | Business | The time interval or phase difference between transmission and reception of a signal. (references) | |
| Acoustic delay line | Aerospace | A device used in a communications link or a computer memory in which the signal is delayed by the propagation of a sound wave. Also call sonic delay line . (references) | |
| Airborne delay | Technology | Amount of delay to be encountered in airborne holding. (references) | |
| Altitude delay | Military | (DOD, NATO) Synchronization delay introduced between the time of transmission of the radar pulse and the start of the trace on the indicator, for the purpose of eliminating the altitude hole on the plan position indicator-type display. (references) | |
| Arrival delay | Health | Arrival delay equals the difference of the actual arrival time minus the scheduled arrival time. A flight is considered on-time when it arrives less than 15 minutes after its published arrival time. (references) | |
| Arrival delay | Technology | A parameter which specifies a period of time in which no aircraft will be metered for arrival at the specified airport. (references) | |
| AV delay | Medicine | Interval from atrial artifact and ventricular artifact in asynchronous modes, and from atrial artifact or atrial sensing and ventricular artifact in dual-chamber modes [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Baseline Delay | Military | Same as baseline travel time. (references) | |
| Beacon delay | Aerospace | The amount of inherent delay within a beacon, i.e., the time between the arrival of a signal and the response of the beacon. (references) | |
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