scheduling

English

Verb

scheduling

1. present participle and gerund of schedule

Noun

scheduling (countable and uncountable, plural schedulings)

1. (uncountable) A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time.
2. (countable) The time at which a particular event is scheduled.
3. (countable) Assignment to a schedule, or systematic arrangement.
   • 1991, James W. Cooper, Drug-Related Problems in Geriatric Nursing Home Patients, page 111:

     The use of modified unit-dose rather than eight separate pharmacies with an individual prescription system could have prevented virtually all of these inappropriate schedulings of drugs.

Derived terms

• trace scheduling

 

Translations

function

• Czech: rozvrhování n
• Finnish: aikataulutus
• French: planification (fr) f, ordonnancement (fr) m
• German: Disposition (de) f

time at which a particular event is scheduled

• French: planification (fr) f, programmation (fr) f
• Indonesian: penjadwalan (id)