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Delayed action

noun

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.

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"Delayed action" Quotes from Famous Books

... special companies were hunting for them. Their presence gave us confidence in living in the houses chosen for billets; but a few days later, we afterwards heard, a number of these were blown up by mines with delayed action. We continued our march in the direction of Douai, reaching Planque on the 21st and stopping there for three days. The further we went the better the condition of the villages became. At Planque the houses ...

— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison

... odd, that the interest in Indian affairs should have been suddenly and strangely revived in the hundredth year after the victory that laid Bengal at the feet of an English adventurer. Had the insurgent Sepoys delayed action but a few weeks, they might have inaugurated their movement on the very centennial anniversary of the ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

Words linked to "Delayed action" : mechanism, photographic camera, camera