Law

• To delay payment of a debt, a crime in the United Kingdom

Telecommunications and broadcasting

• Broadcast delay
  Broadcast delay
  In radio and television, broadcast delay refers to the practice of intentionally delaying broadcast of live material. A short delay is often used to prevent profanity, bloopers, violence, or other undesirable material from making it to air, including more mundane problems such as technical...
  
  , a practice of time-shifting transmissions
• Delay encoding
  Delay encoding
  In telecommunications, delay encoding is the encoding of binary data to form a two-level signal such that a "0" causes no change of signal level unless it is followed by another "0" in which case a transition to the other level takes place at the end of the first bit period; and a "1" causes a...
  
  , a radio transmission technique
• Network delay
  Network delay
  Network delay is an important design and performance characteristic of a computer network or telecommunications network. The delay of a network specifies how long it takes for a bit of data to travel across the network from one node or endpoint to another. It is typically measured in multiples or...
  
  , the delay of an IP packet within an IP network
• Lag
  Lag
  Lag is a common word meaning to fail to keep up or to fall behind. In real-time applications, the term is used when the application fails to respond in a timely fashion to inputs...
  
  , a term used when a real-time application fails to respond in a timely fashion

Physics and electronics

• Propagation delay
  Propagation delay
  Propagation delay is a technical term that can have a different meaning depending on the context. It can relate to networking, electronics or physics...
  
  , a measurement of the time for a signal to reach its destination
• Delay line (disambiguation) (multiple meanings), one of any technologies for shifting a signal in time

Audio

• Delay (audio effect)
  Delay (audio effect)
  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.-Early delay...
  
  , a technology for producing delayed playback of an audio signal

Computer science

• Delay (programming), a programming language construct for delaying evaluation of an expression

Sports

• Delay (game), official ruling to abnormally stop a sporting event once it has begun due to circumstances that prevent fairness of play, such as inclement weather.