DELAY

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. ( 188 ) 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.