Delay (from Latin: dilatio) may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

* '' Delay 1968'', a 1981 album by German experimental rock band Can * ''

The Delay ''The Delay'' ( es, La demora) is a 2012 Uruguayan drama film directed by Rodrigo Plá. The film was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but ...

'', 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 Lodg ...

(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 ti ...

(born 1941), French academician and actor * Jan Delay (born 1976), German musician * Jason Delay (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 mental ...

(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), 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 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 may refer to: * Propagation delay, the length of time taken for something to reach its destination * Analog delay line, used to delay a signal * Bi-directional delay line, a numerical analysis technique used in computer simulation for so ...

* Delay-line memory, a type of random-access memory *

Delay-line oscillator A delay-line oscillator is a form of electronic oscillator that uses a delay line as its principal timing element. The circuit is set to oscillate by inverting the output of the delay line and feeding that signal back to the input of the delay l ...

, 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 In computer networking, delay-gradient congestion control refers to a class of congestion control algorithms, which react to the ''differences'' in round-trip delay time (RTT), as opposed to classical congestion control methods, which react to pack ...

, a class of network congestion control algorithms, which react to the differences in round-trip delay time (RTT) *

Delay-locked loop In electronics, a delay-locked loop (DLL) is a pseudo-digital circuit similar to a phase-locked loop (PLL), with the main difference being the absence of an internal voltage-controlled oscillator, replaced by a delay line. A DLL can be used to ch ...

(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 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, l ...

, 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 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 co ...

, 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 composition, also called delay charge or delay train, is a pyrotechnic composition, a sort of pyrotechnic initiator, a mixture of oxidizer and fuel that burns in a slow, constant rate that should not be significantly dependent on temperature ...

, 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 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 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 acto ...

, a crime in the United Kingdom, under the Theft Act 1978