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timing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun timing has 2 senses
- timing(n = noun.attribute) Array - the time when something happens; Array is a kind of temporal arrangement, temporal order
- timing(n = noun.act) Array - the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics); Array is a kind of regulating, regulation
has particulars: approach, approaching, coming, earliness, lateness, promptness, punctuality, tardiness, simultaneity, simultaneousness, seasonableness, timeliness, unseasonableness, untimeliness, pastness, futurity, nowness, presentness, lead, spark advance
Derived form verb time2
has particulars: coordination
OXFORD DICTIONARY
timing, n.
1 the way an action or process is timed, esp. in relation to others.
2 the regulation of the opening and closing of valves in an internal-combustion engine.
1 the way an action or process is timed, esp. in relation to others.
2 the regulation of the opening and closing of valves in an internal-combustion engine.
THESAURUS
timing
ability, accommodation, accord, accordance, adaptation, address, adeptness, adjustment, adroitness, affinity, agreement, airmanship, andante tempo, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, assent, assimilation, attunement, beat, bravura, brilliance, calendar-making, capability, capacity, chorus, chronology, chronoscopy, cleverness, clock-making, clocking, coaptation, coherence, coincidence, command, compatibility, competence, compound time, concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, consistency, consonance, consort, control, cooperation, coordination, correspondence, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, dating, deftness, dendrochronology, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, duple time, efficiency, equivalence, expertise, facility, finesse, grace, grip, handiness, harmonization, harmony, horology, horometry, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, integration, intersection, know-how, largo, march tempo, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mixed times, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace, practical ability, presto, proficiency, prowess, quickness, rag, ragtime, rapport, readiness, reconcilement, reconciliation, regulation, resource, resourcefulness, rubato, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, self-consistency, sextuple time, simple time, skill, skillfulness, squaring, style, symmetry, sync, synchronism, synchronization, syncopation, syncope, tact, tactfulness, tally, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, tempo, tempo rubato, three-quarter time, time, time pattern, timekeeping, triple time, triplet, two-four time, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, virtuosity, waltz time, wit, wizardry, workmanship
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