How to say "timing" in Japanese

• タイミングJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounThe everyday word for timing: when you do something relative to other events, as in good or bad timing when speaking or acting. This is usually the word you want.
  その論文ろんぶんは教授きょうじゅの誕生日たんじょうびとタイミングが合あうように出版しゅっぱんされた。↗

  Publication of the article was timed to coincide with the professor's birthday.
• 計時けいじ
  noun, suru verb, transitive verb, intransitive verbTiming in the sense of measuring elapsed time, such as clocking runners in a race. This is a less common, technical term, so it is seldom the word you want for ordinary 'timing'.

Use 「タイミング」 for the everyday sense of timing an action well or badly, and 計時 for the technical sense of measuring or clocking time, as in sports.

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• タイミングtiming
• 計時けいじclocking