time delay
Gap before response
A time delay is a pause or interval between two events—between when something is triggered and when it takes effect.
Security systems may have a time delay before arming.
Explosives use time-delay fuses.
In broadcasting, a time delay allows censors to catch objectionable content before it airs.
The adjective form appears in compounds: time-delay photography, time-delay relay.
- lagPeriod of falling behind
- latencyDelay in system response
- split secondInfinitesimal unit of time
- hysteresisHistory-dependent system response
- intervalDuration between two points
echo · pause · pregnant pause · postponement · hesitation · waiting game · buffering · buffer zone · wait · jitter · holdover · procrastination · processing speed · slow motion · intermission · countdown · hang · freeze
- broadcast delay
- LORANtransmitters, receivers
- broadcastingbroadcasting, TV, radio, television, news
- remote controluniversal remote, infrared remote, remote control, remote, controller
- timekeeping devicesclock, watch, stopwatch, hourglass, alarm clock
- broadcast equipmentbroadcast camera, broadcast tower, broadcast antenna, antenna array, transmitter
time delayimmediacy
Quality of being direct
real-time · instant · simultaneity · promptness · on-the-spot
time delaydirect connection
live feed · low latency · real-time · real-time processing · live
time, delay, timer, timely, delayed, timed, timing, delaying, untimely