遅延 — meaning in English

English meaning

• delay noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
• latency noun The delay between an action and the response to it, especially the time data takes to travel across a network.

Senses

遅延 is used for these senses in English:

• delay A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
• delay To put off until a later time; to defer.
• 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.

delay — full definition

1. noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
2. verb To put something off until later, or to make it happen later than planned.

latency — full definition

1. noun The delay between an action and the response to it, especially the time data takes to travel across a network.
2. noun The state of existing but not yet being active or visible.

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