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 . |