| 单词 | time delay |
| 释义 | > as lemmastime delay time delay n. and adj. (a) n. a delay in the occurrence or activation of something, a time lag; (b) adj. attributive designating a mechanism, system, etc., into the operation of which a delay has been deliberately introduced. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [noun] > time lag latency1865 time lag1886 time delay1900 lag1902 lag time1956 the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [adjective] > of parts of clocks twelve-hour1791 remontoiring1803 resilient1859 time delay1938 quartz-locked1977 1900 G. T. Fairchild Rural Wealth & Welfare xii. 159 The chattel mortgage..becomes a favorite method for short time delays in payment. 1914 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 33 264 The overload relays are usually made partially selective by some form of time delay... Three principal types of time delay schemes are now available. 1938 Pop. Mech. Oct. 500/2 They [sc. arsonists] avoid leaving any evidence of a time-delay mechanism simply by tossing a match toward one end of a gasoline trail as they leave the house. 1961 P. J. Bhatt Fund. Servo Control Engin. 55 The compressibility and the inertia of the oil may introduce inconvenient time delays. 2010 New Yorker 1 Feb. 33/2 Its many factories had been converted to military use, with slave labor producing Luftwaffe bombsights, time-delay fuses, and other hardware. < as lemmas |
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