timing

nom

1. 1

   obsolèteAn occurrence or event.

2. 2

   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.

   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.

   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. 3

   The time when something happens.

   perfect timing

   The timing of the announcement is related to this months's board meeting.

4. 4

   The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.

5. 5

   An instance of recording the time of something.

verbe

1. 1

   Aussi une forme de timepresent participle and gerund of time

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