timing

The regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect, as in music, the theater, or athletics.

The synchronization of the sparking of the plugs with the movement of the pistons in an internal-combustion engine.

In the design and construction of machinery, the proper adjustment of the parts of any machine so that its operations will follow in a given order to produce a given result, as in the movement of the needle, shuttle, and feed of a sewing-machine in consecutive order.

An occurrence or event.

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 time when something happens.

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

An instance of recording the time of something.

Present participle of time.

the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics)