English noun: timing |
1. | timing (attribute) the time when something happens |
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| Broader (hypernym) | temporal arrangement, temporal order |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | approach, approaching, coming, earliness, futurity, lateness, lead, nowness, pastness, presentness, promptness, punctuality, seasonableness, simultaneity, simultaneousness, spark advance, tardiness, timeliness, unseasonableness, untimeliness |
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| Attribute | early, future, late, middle, past, preceding, present, succeeding |
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2. | timing (act) the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics) |
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| Broader (hypernym) | regulating, regulation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | coordination |
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