Verzögerung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- deferment noun An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
- deferral noun An act of deferring, a deferment.
- delay noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
- hitch noun A small problem, delay, or snag.
- latency noun The delay between an action and the response to it, especially the time data takes to travel across a network.
- tarry verb (literary) To stay somewhere longer than planned, or to delay leaving.
Senses
Verzögerung is used for these senses in English:
- deferment An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
- deferral An act of deferring, a deferment.
- delay A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
- hitch (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- hold-up (colloquial) A delay or wait.
- latency (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- latency (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- tarry A sojourn.
deferment — full definition
- noun An act or instance of deferring or putting off.
- noun Officially sanctioned postponement of compulsory military service.
deferral — full definition
- noun An act of deferring, a deferment.
- noun A prepayment.