delay line

Noun

Meaning

a circuit designed to introduce a calculated delay into the transmission of a signal

Source: WordNet

Hypernyms

circuit electric circuit electrical circuit

Hyponyms

sonic delay line acoustic delay line electromagnetic delay line

Examples

Each frequency experiences a different phase shift as it propagates down the serpentine delay line, which forms different beams. Source: Internet

For example, the chrominance on odd lines would be switched directly through to the decoder and also be stored in the delay line. Source: Internet

The length of any digital delay line is a whole-number multiple of the sampling period. Source: Internet

This is normally done using a delay line like in SECAM (the result is called PAL D or PAL Delay-Line, sometimes interpreted as DeLuxe), but can be accomplished "visually" in cheap TV sets using PAL-S (PAL simple) decoders. Source: Internet

Very large serial-in serial-out shift registers (thousands of bits in size) were used in a similar manner to the earlier delay line memory in some devices built in the early 1970s. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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