Other forms: timings
Timing is the choosing of the right moment. The same action, done a second earlier or later, would fail.
Comedy is the standard example, since a joke lands or dies entirely on timing, and comedians talk about nothing else. Sport, politics and business all depend on it. The phrases are fixed: good timing, bad timing, perfect timing, and the sarcastic your timing is impeccable. Engineering has a precise sense too, since the timing of an engine is when the valves and spark are set to operate.
1nountimingThe choice of the best moment to do something.
“The timing of the announcement was disastrous.”