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

People

• B.H. DeLay, French-American aviator actor
• Dorothy DeLay
• Florence Delay, a French academic and actress
• Jan Delay, a German musician
• Tom DeLay, an American politician
• Vladislav Delay, a Finnish musician

Beverly Homer DeLay, known as B.H. DeLay, was an innovator and an aviator actor of French descent. ... Dorothy DeLay (March 31, 1917 in Kansas – March 24, 2002 in New York) was a violin instructor at the Juilliard School. ... Florence Delay (born March 19, 1941 in Paris) is a French Academician and actress. ... Jan Phillip Eißfeldt, better known as Jan Delay is a german hip hop-artist. ... Thomas Dale DeLay (born April 8, 1947) is a former member of the United States House of Representatives from Sugar Land, Texas. ... Vladislav Delay is one of the pseudonyms of Sasu Ripatti (born 1976), a Finnish electronic musician. ...

Law

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

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 offences and adding new provisions. ...

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

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Tape delay (broadcasting). ... In telecommunications, delay encoding is the encoding of binary data to form a two-level signal such that (a) a 0 causes no change of signal level unless it is followed by another 0 in which case a transition to the other level takes place at the end of the... Network delay in an IP Network is generally the round trip delay for an IP packet within an IP network. ...

Physics and electronics

• 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

In computer science, the propogation 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 is stable and valid. ... The term delay line has multiple meanings: In electronics and derivative fields such as telecommunications, a delay line is rigorously defined as a single-input-channel device, in which the output channel state at a given instant, t, is the same as the input channel state at the instant t...

Audio

• Delay (audio effect), a technology for producing delayed playback of an audio signal

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[1]. The delayed signal may either be played back multiple times, or played back into the recording again, to create the sound of a repeating...

Computer Science

• Delay (programming), a programming language construct for delaying evaluation of an expression

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