timing

To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of.

“I used a stopwatch to time myself running around the block.”

To choose when something begins or how long it lasts.

“The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Super Bowl.”

To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.

To pass time; to delay.

To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.

To measure, as in music or harmony.

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.