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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect, as in music, the theater, or athletics.
- noun The synchronization of the sparking of the plugs with the movement of the pistons in an internal-combustion engine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
occurrence orevent . - noun uncountable The
regulation of thepace of e.g. anathletic race , thespeed of anengine , thedelivery of ajoke , or theoccurrence of aseries ofevents . - noun uncountable The
time when something happens. - noun uncountable The
synchronization of thefiring of thespark plugs in aninternal combustion engine . - noun countable An instance of recording the time of something.
- verb Present participle of
time .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics)
- noun the time when something happens
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Examples
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The team that carried out the study also suspect that accuracy in timing is important to the brain processes responsible for problem solving and reasoning ...
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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This accuracy in timing is apparently due to the ability of the brain to pre-process all the needed setup for the action before it actually needs to occur, based on the repetitive nature of the beat.
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This accuracy in timing is apparently due to the ability of the brain to pre-process all the needed setup for the action before it actually needs to occur, based on the repetitive nature of the beat.
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For men, the change in timing is merely an incidental matter with few repercussions.
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For men, the change in timing is merely an incidental matter with few repercussions.
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For men, the change in timing is merely an incidental matter with few repercussions.
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This difference in timing is extremely significant, for North Sea oil development is essentially a "post-1973/74 oil crisis" phenomenon.
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These things happen sometimes “just because” — maybe the “karma” isn't right ... or the timing is a little bit off.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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These things happen sometimes “just because” — maybe the “karma” isn't right ... or the timing is a little bit off.
Sacked! 2009
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Yes I guess the timing is about right for the Republicans.
Obama: The general election fight should start next week 2008
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- ability
- accommodation
- accord
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- adaptation
- address
- adeptness
- adjustment
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- integration
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- mixed times
- oneness
- overlap
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- peace
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- presto
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- prowess
- quickness
- rag
- ragtime
- rapport
- readiness
- reconcilement
- reconciliation
- regulation
- resource
- resourcefulness
- rubato
- savoir-faire
- savvy
- seamanship
- self-consistency
- sextuple time
- simple time
- skill
- skillfulness
- squaring
- style
- symmetry
- sync
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- synchronization
- syncopation
- syncope
- tact
- tactfulness
- tally
- technical brilliance
- technical mastery
- technical skill
- technique
- tempo
- tempo rubato
- three-quarter time
- time
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- triplet
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- uniformity
- union
- unison
- unisonance
- virtuosity
- waltz time
- wit
- wizardry
- workmanship
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