{
  "id": "delay.timing",
  "term": "delay",
  "sense": "timing",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "communication",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "information arriving after the change it describes has ended, because the parameter's window is narrower than the source's drift.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "feedback.communication",
      "change.process",
      "information.knowledge",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "source.origin",
      "time.dimension",
      "noun.language"
    ],
    "interaction": "The interaction between a narrow parameter window and an aimlessly drifting source causes information to arrive outside the temporal range of the change it reports, resulting in untimely feedback.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "untimely feedback",
      "temporal misalignment",
      "post-hoc information"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis unfolded while central banks relied on monthly inflation reports lagging behind real-time market collapses.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror flaw went undetected for years due to delayed calibration data from ground-based tests.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Weather forecasts for Hurricane Katrina's landfall were issued hours after the storm's actual path had shifted beyond prediction windows.",
      "domain": "meteorology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "drift.aimless",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "timely feedback"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "delay",
    "delays"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'noun.language' and 'windows.opening' as genuinely constitutive based on definition's reliance on linguistic information and structural window metaphor; all other components are directly referen"
    },
    "restored": {
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "from": "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md",
      "replaced": "Information arriving after the change it describes has ended, due to a parameter's range being smaller than the source's variation over time."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-delay.timing"
}