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time delay

NOUN
dead time
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“Eventually, I think we stumbled on the right thing to do, but it’s come at a huge ... time delay and very high costs.”

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2026

It was also marred by NBC’s inability to figure out how to best deploy its production ground forces or bridge the massive time delay between live events and primetime telecasts.

From Salon Aug. 9, 2024

By setting the time delay between the T2 lidar's laser pulse and the eye opening to different time intervals, the scientists can sample signals at different regions through the cloud.

From Science Daily Apr. 24, 2024

Importantly, these effects held even when we presented scenarios where the transgressor was not responsible for the time delay.

From Scientific American Aug. 29, 2023

The time delay for Konig was a little more than fifteen minutes, and for Cliff was about 22 minutes, so they could not actively participate in the discussion.

From The Runaway Asteroid by Michael D. Cooper




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