timing

timing
    n 1: the time when something happens
    2: the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to
       achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics,
       mechanics)
    

Time \Time\ (t[imac]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Timed} (t[imac]md);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Timing}.]
   1. To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at
      the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance
      rightly.
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            There is no greater wisdom than well to time the
            beginnings and onsets of things.      --Bacon.
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   2. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in
      time of movement.
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            Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke.
                                                  --Addison.
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            He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
            Was timed with dying cries.           --Shak.
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   3. To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as,
      to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
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   4. To measure, as in music or harmony.
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150 Moby Thesaurus words for "timing":
      ability, accommodation, accord, accordance, adaptation, address,
      adeptness, adjustment, adroitness, affinity, agreement, airmanship,
      andante tempo, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, assent,
      assimilation, attunement, beat, bravura, brilliance,
      calendar-making, capability, capacity, chorus, chronology,
      chronoscopy, cleverness, clock-making, clocking, coaptation,
      coherence, coincidence, command, compatibility, competence,
      compound time, concert, concord, concordance, conformance,
      conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency,
      congruity, consistency, consonance, consort, control, cooperation,
      coordination, correspondence, craft, craftsmanship, cunning,
      dating, deftness, dendrochronology, dexterity, dexterousness,
      dextrousness, diplomacy, duple time, efficiency, equivalence,
      expertise, facility, finesse, grace, grip, handiness,
      harmonization, harmony, horology, horometry, horsemanship,
      ingeniousness, ingenuity, integration, intersection, know-how,
      largo, march tempo, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mixed times,
      oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace, practical ability, presto,
      proficiency, 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, synchronism, synchronization,
      syncopation, syncope, tact, tactfulness, tally,
      technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill,
      technique, tempo, tempo rubato, three-quarter time, time,
      time pattern, timekeeping, triple time, triplet, two-four time,
      uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, virtuosity, waltz time, wit,
      wizardry, workmanship