0 past simple and past participle of time
1 to decide that something will happen at a particular time:
The girls' basketball team won the game with a perfectly timed shot (= one played at exactly the right moment), just before the buzzer.
If you time your departure carefully, you should be able to miss the worst of the traffic.
[ + to infinitive ] We timed our trip to coincide with my cousin's wedding.
2 to measure how long it takes for something to happen or for someone to do something:
A prospective randomized comparison of observation versus use of steroids and timed delivery.
The term entertainment cannot be applied to this exhibition, yet visitor numbers have to be controlled by timed tickets.
The network continuously and seamlessly interacts with the world via electronics and computers that allow timed local electrical stimulation and application of neuromodulators.
All patients were given appointments for cardiac catheterisation, echocardiography, first pass radio-nuclide angiography and 24 hours ambulatory electrocardiography, timed at six months after surgery.
A comparison of composing processes and written products in timed-essay tests across paper-and-pencil and computer modes.
The above concepts will also be applied to timed labelled stream processing functions.
While one of the timed walks went into an underground station and through a subway, the second remained outdoors, to create an acoustic disjunction.
In the current version, the data associated with sessions that have timed out are simply discarded.
