timing

See also: Timing and tímíng

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪmɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ

Noun

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.

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

• → Cantonese: timing
• → Danish: timing
• → Dutch: timing
• → French: timing
• → Japanese: タイミング (taimingu)
• → Portuguese: timing
• → Spanish: timing

Translations

obsolete: occurrence or event

• Persian: رخداد (fa) (roxdâd)

the regulation of the pace

• Bulgarian: тайминг m (tajming)
• Czech: načasování n
• Finnish: ajoitus (fi), rytmitys (fi), nopeudensäätö
• Greek: χρονισμός (el) m (chronismós)
• Italian: ritmo (it) m, cadenza (it) f, passo (it) m, andamento (it) m
• Persian: زمان‌بندی (zamân-bandi)
• Russian: та́йминг (ru) m (tájming)
• Spanish: cadencia (es) f, temporización (es) f
• Swedish: tajming (sv) c

time when something happens

• Arabic: تَوْقِيت m (tawqīt)

  Hijazi Arabic: تَوْقيت m (tawgīt)

• Dutch: timing (nl) c
• Finnish: ajoitus (fi)
• French: timing (fr) m
• German: Zeitpunkt (de) m
• Italian: tempismo (it) m, tempistica f
• Japanese: タイミング (ja) (taimingu)
• Korean: 타이밍 (taiming)
• Persian: هنگامه (fa) (hengâme)
• Russian: та́йминг (ru) m (tájming), вре́мя (ru) n (vrémja)
• Swahili: wakati (sw), muda (sw)
• Swedish: tidpunkt (sv) c
• Turkish: zamanlama (tr)

synchronization of the spark plugs

• Bulgarian: синхронизиране n (sinhronizirane)
• Finnish: ajoitus (fi)
• Italian: regolazione (it) f, sincronizzazione (it) f, messa a punto f, messa in fase f
• Persian: همگامسازی (hamgâmsâzi)

instance of recording the time

• Finnish: ajanotto (fi)
• Italian: registrazione (it) f, tempistica f, cronologia (it) f, cronometria (it) f, calcolo del tempo m, metrologia (it) f
• Norman: minnut'tie f
• Spanish: cronometraje m
• Swedish: tidsstämpel c

Verb

timing

1. present participle and gerund of time

Anagrams

• miting

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ti‧ming

Noun

timing

1. a type of fish trap

Anagrams

• miting

Chinese

Etymology

From English timing.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taai¹ ming⁴ / taai¹ ming²

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• 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/

Noun

timing

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English timing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑi̯.mɪŋ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ti‧ming

Noun

timing m (plural timings)

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

Related terms

• timen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English timing.

Noun

timing m (plural timings)

1. synchronization
2. pace
3. timing

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English timing.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtaj.mĩ/ [ˈtaɪ̯.mĩ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtaj.mĩɡ/

Noun

timing m (uncountable)

1. timing (time when something happens)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English timing.

Noun

timing n (plural timinguri)

1. timing

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

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

Noun

timing m (uncountable)

1. 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.