Example sentences of "the time delay " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The important thing is to know the time delay between when the fire starts and the detector operates , ’ says Peter Burray , head of fire detection at the station .
2 The three cases of misclassification of delirium were due to the time delay between the team and research assessments ; by the time of the second assessment , the delirium apparent at the first had substantially resolved to reveal an underlying depression or dementia , or both .
3 One method was simply to set fire to a ‘ train' of gunpowder leading to the charge itself , the length of the train corresponding roughly to the time delay before the charge exploded ; a later method involved a kind of fuse of goose quills filled with gunpowder .
4 The main programming problems are likely to arise in the correct timing of the phase excitation changes ; the program segment responsible for the time delay between Steps must be carefully written if it is to provide accurate timing , as well as perform a useful secondary function .
5 The measurements made on GR effects observed within the solar system are described first : the excess advance of the perihelion of Mercury is described in Section 8.1 , the deflection of radiation by the Sun in Section 8.2 and the time delay of radar signals passing by the Sun in Section 8.3 .
6 There is a similar expression for the time delay from N to Venus .
7 1979 ) to measure the time delay for reflections from Mars over a period of 14 months .
8 Here is known as the retardation time and is a measure of the time delay in the strain after imposition of the stress .
9 Such a correctly terminated low-pass lattice filter constitutes an extremely good delay line , the time delay per section being constant and equal to at pulsatances well below .
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