timing
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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaɪmɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ
Noun
timing (countable and uncountable, plural timings)
- (countable, obsolete) An occurrence or event.
- (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.
- (countable, uncountable) The time when something happens.
- perfect timing
- (uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
- (countable) An instance of recording the time of something.
Derived terms
- active timing
- attack timing
- back-timing
- basic ignition timing
- basic timing
- color timing
- comic timing
- computer-controlled timing
- continuous variable valve timing
- dynamic ignition timing
- ignition timing
- market timing
- sequential valve timing
- signal timing
- stress timing
- syllable timing
- targa timing
- target timing
- timing belt
- timing chain
- timing is everything
- valve timing
- variable cam timing
- variable valve timing
- watch timing machine
Descendants
Translations
the regulation of the pace
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time when something happens
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synchronization of the spark plugs
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instance of recording the time
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Verb
timing
- present participle and gerund of time
Anagrams
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ti‧ming
Noun
timing
Anagrams
Chinese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: taai1 ming4 / taai1 ming2
- Yale: tāai mìhng / tāai míng
- Cantonese Pinyin: taai1 ming4 / taai1 ming2
- Guangdong Romanization: tai1 ming4 / tai1 ming2
- Sinological IPA (key): /tʰaːi̯⁵⁵ mɪŋ²¹/, /tʰaːi̯⁵⁵ mɪŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
timing
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) timing (the time when something happens)
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
timing m (plural timings)
- timing (synchronisation; regulation of pace or time)
Related terms
French
Etymology
Noun
timing m (plural timings)
Further reading
- “timing”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English timing.
Pronunciation
Noun
timing m (uncountable)
- timing (time when something happens)
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
timing n (plural timinguri)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | timing | timingul | timinguri | timingurile | |
| genitive-dative | timing | timingului | timinguri | timingurilor | |
| vocative | timingule | timingurilor | |||
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English timing.
Pronunciation
Noun
timing m (uncountable)
- timing (time when something happens)
Usage notes
- 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.