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PACING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(music) the speed at which a composition is to be played
Synonyms:
pacing; tempo
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
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)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb pace
Context examples:
Failure of device to generate a correctly-shaped pacing output, for example, a waveform that is too wide.
(Failure to Spike Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)
Failure to capture manifests as a high pacing threshold that results in either intermittent failure to capture at maximal programmed output or excessive battery drain leading to premature battery exhaustion.
(Failure of Cardiac Pacemaker to Capture, NCI Thesaurus)
The cardiac rhythm device malfunction affected atrial pacing.
(Cardiac Atrial Pacing Malfunction, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
This includes fascicular blocks (hemiblocks), bundle branch blocks, non-specific conduction delays and ventricular pacing.
(Abnormal Intraventricular Conduction by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)
The carriage was ready: they were bringing it round to the front, and my master was pacing the pavement, Pilot following him backwards and forwards.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
His sleep was broken by infant wails and visions of a phantom figure pacing noiselessly to and fro in the watches of the night.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But, Fanny, he presently added, in order to have a comfortable walk, something more is necessary than merely pacing this gravel together.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Cardiac arrest should be used to signify an event as described above that is reversed, usually by CPR, and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing.
(Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The date of a cardiac arrest event that was reversed, usually by cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing.
(Date of Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest, NCI Thesaurus)
