timing

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪmɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ

timing (countable and uncountable, plural timings)

1. (countable, obsolete) An occurrence or event.
2. (countable, uncountable) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.

   The key to telling a good joke is timing.

   The officials used the latest technology to ensure timing down to the nearest millisecond.

   • 1953 August, David R. Webb, “By Rail to Bournemouth”, in Railway Magazine, page 554:

     The S.D.R. [Somerset & Dorset Railway] could not adhere to this schedule, and had to decelerate the service, but the original timings were restored when the M.R. and L.S.W.R. leased the S.D.R.

   • 2001, Frederick Alan Casemore, Skylarks: For Myself, Lest I Forget, Or Die Unsung, page 171:

     Smoking was difficult, I had to have perfect timing, sticking my head as far out the tiny porthole as I could, and timing my puffs to the inhalings and exhalings of the ship.

3. (countable, uncountable) The time when something happens.

   perfect timing

4. (uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
5. (countable) An instance of recording the time of something.

timing

1. present participle and gerund of time

• miting

• Hyphenation: ti‧ming

timing

1. a type of fish trap

• miting

From English timing.

timing

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) timing (the time when something happens)

Borrowed from English timing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑi̯.mɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: ti‧ming

timing m (plural timings)

1. timing (synchronisation; regulation of pace or time)

• timen

Borrowed from English timing.

timing m (plural timings)

1. synchronization
2. pace
3. timing

• “timing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English timing.

timing m (uncountable)

1. timing (time when something happens)

Borrowed from English timing.

timing n (plural timinguri)

1. timing

Unadapted borrowing from English timing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaimin/ [ˈt̪ai̯.mĩn]
• Rhymes: -aimin

timing m (uncountable)

1. timing (time when something happens)

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.