In this case, the timing comes from the fuel injection system.
The timing of the announcement could not have come at a more politically sensitive time.
Other times the timing of the force came as a surprise, with the players knowing only that it would come within the next 30 seconds.
But the timing of his bid also came as momentum shifted to the industry.
The timing, he had said earlier, hadn't come during his short stay in the minors.
The timing of the gift comes at a fortuitous moment in the Morgan's history.
The timing of the agreement and, above all, the rapidity with which it was reached, came as a surprise to many here.
"I understand how much timing comes into things," Barber said during a break at training camp this week.
"It's just that the timing of the announcement came at this moment," Honda said through a spokesman.
The timing of the release came as a surprise.