# timing
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaɪmɪŋ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪmɪŋ

### Noun

timing (countable and uncountable, plural timings)
* (countable, obsolete) An occurrence or event.
* (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.
* (countable, uncountable) The time when something happens.
    perfect timing
* (uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
* (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
### Verb

timing
* present participle and gerund of time

### Anagrams

* miting

## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ti‧ming

### Noun

timing
* a type of fish trap

### Anagrams

* miting

## Chinese
### Etymology

From English timing.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): taai$^1$ ming$^4$ / taai$^1$ ming$^2$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: taai$^1$ ming$^4$ / taai$^1$ ming$^2$
*** Yale: tāai mìhng / tāai míng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: taai$^1$ ming$^4$ / taai$^1$ ming$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: tai$^1$ ming$^4$ / tai$^1$ ming$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /tʰaːi̯⁵⁵ mɪŋ²¹/, /tʰaːi̯⁵⁵ mɪŋ³⁵/

### Noun

timing
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) timing (the time when something happens)

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English timing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɑi̯.mɪŋ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ti‧ming

### Noun

timing m (plural timings)
* timing (synchronisation; regulation of pace or time)

#### Related terms

* timen

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English timing.

### Noun

timing m (plural timings)
* synchronization
* pace
* 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: /ˈtaj.mĩ/ [ˈtaɪ̯.mĩ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtaj.mĩɡ/

### Noun

timing m (uncountable)
* timing (time when something happens)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English timing.

### Noun

timing n (plural timinguri)
* timing

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English timing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaimin/ [ˈt̪ai̯.mĩn]
* Rhymes: -aimin

### Noun

timing m (uncountable)
* 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.