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TIME-DELAY

Specialty Definition: TIME-DELAY

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

Small difference in timing between two signals. By mixing a digital audio signal with a delayed and attenuated version of itself, a wide range of audio effects can be obtained. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: TIME-DELAY

Specialty definitions using "TIME-DELAY": time-delay relay. (references)

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Usage Frequency: TIME-DELAY

"TIME-DELAY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "TIME-DELAY" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)80%4175,879
Noun (singular)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TIME-DELAY

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

French

  

retard (dead time, delay time). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ime-delaytay

   

Russian 

  

задержка (backoff, backset, back-set, check, delay, detention, foot-dragging, hitch, holdback, holdup, impediment, lag, lagging, lateness, retardation, retardment, set back, setback, suppression, throwback, time-lag). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TIME-DELAY

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. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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