PACING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pacing mean? 

• PACING (noun)
  The noun PACING has 2 senses:

1. (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played

2. walking with slow regular strides

  Familiarity information: PACING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PACING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(music) the speed at which a composition is to be played

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

pacing; tempo

Hypernyms ("pacing" is a kind of...):

musical time ((music) the beat of musical rhythm)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pacing"):

accelerando (a gradually increasing tempo of music)

allegretto (a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro)

allegro (a brisk and lively tempo)

andante (a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace))

meno mosso (played at reduced speed; less rapid)

rubato (a flexible tempo; not strictly on the beat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Walking with slow regular strides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pacing" is a kind of...):

gait (a person's manner of walking)

Derivation:

pace (walk with slow or fast paces)

 Context examples 

I naturally inquired why he was not there too, instead of pacing the streets by himself?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I have been robbed,” I said to him, a little later, when I found him pacing up and down the poop alone.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Pacing voltage or pulse width is less than desired.

(Inadequate Pacing Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

An electrocardiographic assessment of presence of artificial electronic pacing.

(Pacemaker ECG Assessment, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Night after night I heard him pacing his room, and it was just as he was recovering his confidence that the blow did at last fall.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes was pacing up and down one side of the room whilst the old professor was talking.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Issue associated with a pacing transmission process such that between any two significant instants in the same group, there is always an integral number of unit intervals.

(Asynchronous Pacing Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

A coil designed to allow a Helifix pacing electrode to be placed in the endocardium.

(Helifix Coil Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A bundle of leads designed to connect between a pacing device and implanted heart electrodes.

(Lead Conductor Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

The cardiac rhythm device malfunction affected the left ventricular (LV) pacing.

(Left Cardiac Ventricular Pacing Malfunction, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)