delay line

British  

noun

1. a device in which a known delay time is introduced in the transmission of a signal. An acoustic delay line delays a sound wave by circulating it through a liquid or solid medium

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Example Sentences

Also, photons from some telescopes may have to be kept in abeyance in “delay lines,” often involving optical fibers, to ensure that the light from all telescopes has traveled the same distance.

From Scientific American

A device called a delay line introduces a time delay in the propagation of one part with respect to the other.

From Nature

"Wilkes was exposed to electronics and valves during his wartime work on radar and to the mercury delay lines it used for memory," said Mr Barr.

From BBC

Before the introduction of magnetic tape, digital storage for early computers used punched cards, paper tape as well as more exotic technologies such as mercury delay lines and the phosphors on cathode ray tubes.

From Forbes

He added that experiments were already being carried out to use different materials to act as a "delay line" memory as in the original.

From BBC