delay

n 1: time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay

caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the

action" [syn: {hold}, {time lag}, {postponement}, {wait}]

2: the act of delaying [syn: {holdup}, {detention}]

v 1: cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by

the bad weather" [syn: {detain}, {hold up}] [ant: {rush}]

2: act later than planned or scheduled

3: stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" [syn: {stay}, {detain}]

decay

[Nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied to

most array-valued expressions in {C}; they "decay into"

pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first

element. This term is not used in the official standard for

the language.

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