delay line (English, noun)
expansion: delay line (plural delay lines)
Senses:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electrical or optical component designed to delay the transmission of a signal by a specific amount of time.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A mechanical or optical system used to compensate for the differences in optical path lengths of light beams originating from individual telescopes.
Forms:
form: delay lines
tags: plural