delay line

1. 1.

   a circuit designed to introduce a calculated delay into the transmission of a signal

   Broadercircuit

   Narroweracoustic delay lineelectromagnetic delay line

Questions about delay line

What does delay line mean?

delay line means "a circuit designed to introduce a calculated delay into the transmission of a signal".

Is delay line a common word?

delay line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.