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timing
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Timing in music refers to the ability to "keep time" accurately and to synchronise to an ensemble, as well as to expressive timing —subtle adjustment of note or beat duration, or of tempo , for aesthetic effect. Research in music cognition has shown that ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "a happening," verbal noun from time (v.). From 1590s as "the noting or recording of time;" 1915 as "coordination of moving parts in a machinery."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sense of timing (= the ability to choose the right moment to do or say something ) ▪ He told the story with an exquisite sense of timing. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE good ▪ I think the main ingredient for ...
Usage examples of timing.
Old World, then, the location and timing of agriculture is understood, as are the plants and animals on which it was based.
Behind these small ships, the overlapped shields of the foremost ballistas flickered imperceptibly in precise timing as they launched a volley of defensive projectile fire, driving back the first robot assault, annihilating many of the machine suicide ships before they could get through.
Several of them, including Senator Lott and Representative Dick Armey, criticized the timing of the attacks, saying I had ordered them in order to delay the House vote on impeachment.
Through a freak of timing, it missed Bink and clubbed into the trunk of the needle cactus.
Eventually about six of us all bumped into one another, flapping about our timings.
I was particularly anxious that there should be no misunderstanding in our timing and signals, and I made Chubby repeat them twice.
Basically, Enron would make a massive bet on the timing of deregulation, with losses piling up until new rules came about.
Local dispatch got about ten calls in the last few minutes, all witnesses timing the explosion at roughly the same moment the Ugly Duckling went up.
The second involved a slew of matters relevant to the Orion investigation, which Gordian was continuing to view as a separate affair for the present, although the close timing of the episodes in Florida and Brazil, and the fact that both would have damaging repercussions for the ISS program, made it impossible to avoid the possibility of some connection between them.
The almost continuous exchange of encrypted human information--bearings, timing, logistic concerns, and good-natured jibes--passing between the divers, the Hawkbill, and the Rush-more now gave way to the sound of automated machines.
Bob Renwick ii thinking of an indirect way to reach Basset, make hirn listen, but only when the timing is right.
In fact, its timing seemed downright providential when, less than a year later, Walton learned that he had contracted a disease far more lethal than leukemia: multiple myeloma, or malignant cancer of the bone marrow.
This was the first time he was aware of Mysterioso watching his act, but the timing of his appearances in the wings suggested he knew exactly when Carter would be facing stage left or stage right.
There have also been some indications of extrasolar planets from observations of the occultation of starlight when the planet passes in front of the star along our line of sight, from gravitational microlensing that changes the intensity of a background star, and from timing of the pulses from neutron stars with planets in orbit.
I had the timing wrong, but I do not like paupiettes enough to give it a second try.