timekeeping
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The measurement of time, or determining what the local time is: the act or process of keeping the time.
Uncountable
noun
The measurement of time, or determining what the local time is: the act or process of keeping the time.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Timekeeping is better than on many Irish main lines; indeed, such delays as do occur are often attributable to late running of the Dublin-Sligo trains."
- "As already indicated, timekeeping is very poor. Point-to-point times are not kept, even with a clear road, and whilst fast running has never been a feature of the route because of the large number of junctions and speed restrictions, this Sunday night lethargy is hard to explain."
- "Our correspondent found that timekeeping had suffered following the substitution of Class 5 4-6-0s on these workings."