delayed action

1. 1.

   a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture

   Broadermechanism

   Part ofcamera

Questions about delayed action

What does delayed action mean?

delayed action means "a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture".

Is delayed action a common word?

delayed action 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.