DELAY

Delay

Delay is an audio effect which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time. The delayed signal may either be played back multiple times, or played back into the recording again, to create the sound of a repeating, decaying echo.

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delay

Noun

  1. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
    the delay before the echo of a sound

Verb

  1. To put off until a later time; to defer.
  2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
    The mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
  3. To allay; to temper.

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To dilute, temper.
  2. To assuage, quench, allay.


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