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DELAY TIME

Specialty Definition: DELAY TIME

DomainDefinition

Labor

Pauses in normal work activities caused by circumstances beyond the employees'control(power break-downs, lack of materials). Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

The nominal period between the firing of successive delay detonators in a series of shots. Source: European Union. (references)
 In seismic refraction work, the additional time required to traverse any raypath over the time that would be required to traverse the horizontal component at the highest velocity encountered on the raypath, as it refers to either the source or receiver end of the trajectory.Syn:intercept time. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

The time between the establishment of an undesired condition and the start of corrective motion of a control rod. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DELAY TIME

Specialty definitions using "DELAY TIME": blasting timer, broadside shootingdelay taginter-packet gap. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: DELAY TIME

Synonym by domain: down-time (labor).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DELAY TIME

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

circuit delay time

12

delay time

12

delay time vhdl

8

audio delay time

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DELAY TIME

Language Translations for "DELAY TIME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

ventetid (access motion time, access time, break in the work, dead time, down time, dwell, head positioning time, hold, latency, or disk heads or at the end of an acoustic tank, rotational delay, rotational delay-time, rotational latency, search time, seek time, the time spent waiting for the desired location to appear under the drum, time stood-off, time-out, unhook time, waiting time), trinnummer (delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval), tabstid (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), spildtid (break in the work, dead time, delay, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), reaktionstid (delay, delay period, reaction time), forsinkelsestid (delay, delay period), arbejdspause (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wachttijd (break in the work, days of demurrage, dead time, down time, dwell, latency, lay days, or disk heads or at the end of an acoustic tank, qualifying days, qualifying period, rotational delay, rotational delay-time, rotational latency, the time spent waiting for the desired location to appear under the drum, time stood-off, waiting time), vertraging (delay, retardation), tijdtrap (delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval), nummer van vertraging (delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

viive (break in the work, dead time, delay, down time, dwell, lag, lay time, smearing, time of travel, time stood-off, transmission delay, waiting time), seisonta-aika (break in the work, days of demurrage, dead time, down time, lay days, time stood-off, waiting time), odotusaika (time of waiting, waiting period), hukka-aika (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

   

French

  

temps mort (dead time, delay), temps d'attente (dead time, rotational delay, rotational delay-time, the time spent waiting for the desired location to appear under the drum), retard (delay), numero de retard (delay interval, delay number, delay period), echelonnement (delay interval, delay number, delay period). (various references)

   

German

  

Zeitstufe (delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval), Zeitabstand (interval, lag), Wartezeit (latency, wait, waiting period, waiting time), Verzoegerungszeit (delay, delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval), Stufe (degree, grade, increment, layer, level, pace, phase, rank, rung, stage, stair, step, terrace, tier), betriebsbedingte Ausfallzeit (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νεκρός χρόνος (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, time-out, unhook time, waiting time), χρόνος καθυστερήσεως (delay, delay period), χρόνος υστέρησης (delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval), χρόνος επιβράδυνσης (delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval), χαμένος χρόνος εργασίας (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tempo morto (break in the work, dead time, delay, down time, insensitive time, time stood-off, waiting time), Tempo di ritardo (break in the work, dead time, delay, delay period, down time, lag, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo di pausa (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo di inermuzione (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo di attesa (break in the work, dead time, down time, dwell, latency, time stood-off, waiting time), numero di ritardo (delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval), interruzione di lavoro (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elayday imetay

   

Portuguese

  

tempo morto (break in the work, dead time, delay, down time, free time, idle time, insensitive time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo de pausa (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo de espera (break in the work, dead time, down time, dwell time, latency, logistics time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo de atraso (break in the work, dead time, delay, delay period, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), período de retardamento (delay, delay period), período de atraso (delay, delay period), número de retardo (delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval), número de atraso (delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval), interrupções inesperadas (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tiempo de espera (break in the work, dead time, down time, latency, time stood-off, waiting time), retraso (a delay, abeyance, adjournment, delay, lag, lateness, retardation, retardment), pausa en el trabajo (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), número de retraso (delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval), intervalo (distance, gap, interlude, intermission, interval, lapse, lull, range, wait), interrupción en el trabajo (break in the work, dead time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), escalonamiento (delay interval, delay number, delay period, interval, stepping). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

väntetid (wait). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DELAY TIME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mediately.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-t-y"

-2 letters: daytime, emailed, limeade, meatily, mediate, metaled.

-3 letters: aedile, daylit, delate, delime, detail, dilate, elated, eyelid, ideate, itemed, mailed, malted, mealie, meated, mediae, medial, medley, meetly, melted, milady, milted, tailed, tamely, teamed, timely.

-4 letters: adeem, admit, ailed, aimed, amide, amity, daily, dealt, deity, delay, delta, demit, dimly, edema, edile, elate, elemi, elide, elite, email.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-m-t-y"
 

+1 letter: myelinated.

 

+2 letters: immediately.

 

+3 letters: determinably, immoderately, meditatively, multilayered, unmyelinated.

 

+4 letters: demyelinating, demyelination, determinately, detrimentally, nonmyelinated, predominately, remediability.

 

+5 letters: absentmindedly, demyelinations, denumerability, electrodynamic, indeterminably, intermediately, premeditatedly, radiotelemetry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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