delay

Stunting, delayed brain development, lifelong deformities.

After hours of delay, your red-eye flight is finally boarding, and your long-awaited nap is within reach.

That order today delays a ruling that would have required all construction on the ballroom to stop as of midnight tonight.

There would be a little more delay between feeling something and having to act on it.

This could manifest as a phase-advance, a fast-running biological clock, or a phase-delay, a slow-running biological clock.

To keep assigned seating and further reduce delays, mathematicians developed the outside-in, or WMA method, which loads passengers in window seats first, then middle, and finally aisle seats, bringing boarding time down to just 16.5 minutes.