The phrase "add a delay" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the need to introduce a pause or waiting period in a process, such as programming, scheduling, or project management.
Example: "To ensure the system runs smoothly, we need to add a delay between each command to prevent overload."
Alternatives: "introduce a pause" or "implement a lag".
He and his team of about 60 add a delay to Amy's responses to keep up the act, as though she's typing.
To make a song sound as if it were playing in an empty mall, you cut the low frequencies, raise the mid-range frequencies, and add a delay, which imitates the way sound bounces through a big, empty space.
Even though the data travel most of the way at the speed of light, this can still add a delay of half an hour.
Fig. 1 shows a FM employee using paper-based methods to locate a desired utility, which can be time consuming and add a delay in the maintenance task.
"I really want to add a delay, actually," Nommesen says, explaining that someone sends a text right away, it's a bit embarrassing, not to mention potentially dangerous, to get an immediate response from a bot.
Hence, to increase the probability that a RESPONSE or CLOSURE message will contain useful information, we introduce what is called a delayed response mechanism where a peer will add a delay of d s msec before sending out the RESPONSE and CLOSURE messages after receiving the GREETING and RESPONSE.
The second half of the track is barely altered other than to add a subtle boost in the kick's low end, and to add a delayed clap.
Vibration is reduced at the expense of adding a delay equal to the length of the shaper.
At this point, we propose to use secondary peak location of e(m) adding a delay (D) for deactivation of the DWS.
If any addresses of match the address, then before a retransmission adds a delay in length of wait time slot as follows: (2) (i) is and is the order of the node in the list of.
However, the requirement of the hippocampus was re-instated if the experimenter manually added a delay between trials [10].
