delay line
- noun
- Specialized
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- Using a delay line in the circuit can improve the overall performance by ensuring signals are transmitted with the intended delay.
- neural delay line
Examples
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Inputs are delayed by neural delay lines so that different e-e cells experience a coincidence for different arrival times at the two ears.
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Upon up-conversion, the new signal photon has a temporally varying frequency; it can then be compressed and shaped via a dispersive delay line, typically made with diffraction gratings.
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Using delay lines, one can also process several adjacent lines together.
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This arrangement requires delay-line interpolation because not every row has both red and blue filters.
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Not an easy thing to do, but they came up with a kind of magnetostrictive delay line memory that was just a fraction of the size of other memory modules.
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One might imagine that the network of delay lines and coincidence detectors described in the box vanishes at frequencies greater than about 1500 Hz.
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In 1948, Lloyd Jeffress proposed that the auditory system processes interaural time differences by using a network of neural delay lines terminating in e-e neurons.
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Inputs from the left ear (blue) and right ear (red) proceed down neural delay lines in each channel and coincide at the e-e cells for which the neural delay Tau exactly compensates for the fact that the signal started at one ear sooner than the other.
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In audio processing, a delay line allows engineers to synchronize sound signals by introducing a precise time lag.
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The radio transmission was enhanced by a delay line, which helped in managing the timing of the signals effectively.
Synonyms
A device that delays electrical signals by letting electromagnetic waves travel along it
A device that delays an electrical signal by a set amount of time
A device that delays electrical signals by turning them into sound waves that travel and become electrical signals again
A device that delays a signal using the time sound takes to travel
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is transparently built from 'delay' (a postponement or slowing) + 'line' (a channel or path), so a learner can infer it denotes a channel/device that produces a delay in a signal. While the term is technical and may include precise engineering details unfamiliar to B1 learners, the core idea of a 'line that delays' is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
The term delay line comes from the simple image of a long 'line' that makes a signal wait a little before it goes on. The parts delay (to make wait) and line (a path for the signal, like a long wire or electronic parts) explain why it means 'a device that makes an electronic signal arrive later'.
