Whether the timing of the episode was a deliberate attempt to overshadow the opening night of the BBC's first commercial rival has been debated ever since.

The timing of the opening of the gates is unpredictable, effectively making it a jackpot where the player receives no payout.

The piston port type engine's intake timing opens and closes before and after top dead center at the same crank angle, making it symmetrical, whereas the rotary valve allows the opening to begin earlier and close earlier.

Higher lift allows accurate timing of airflow ; although even by allowing a larger volume of air to pass in the relatively larger opening, the brevity of the typical duration with a higher lift cam results in less airflow than with a cam with lower lift but more duration, all else being equal.

Car bombs are activated in a variety of ways ; including opening the vehicle's doors, starting the engine, depressing the accelerator or brake pedals or simply lighting a fuse or setting a timing device.

In this mode, the timing of the contacts coincides exactly with the full opening of the shutter, since xenon flashes respond almost instantly.

They require regular adjustment to compensate for wear, and the opening of the contact breakers, which is responsible for spark timing, is subject to mechanical variations.

Because of the timing of the final sale with respect to the park's opening, PARC was unable to make many major changes for the 2007 season.

Some evidence suggestst the timing of opening of the spathe is dependent on light levels, where cloudy, darker days result in the spathe opening up earlier than on clear days.

The timing of the opening and closing of these valves can be important to method development.

In the internal combustion engine application, the timing belt / chain connects the crankshaft to the camshaft ( s ), which in turn controls the opening and closing of the engine's valves.

The timing of the valve opening and closing is also important.

The exhaust valve opening timing is retarded for higher expansion ratio, enhancing fuel economy.

At the same time, the exhaust valve opening timing is retarded to provide a higher expansion ratio and improved efficiency.

With exquisite drives either side of the wicket, a formidable cut and pull shot in the armory and possessing the natural gift of timing, he seemed the very answer to Pakistan's opening problem especially against a full strength South African attack in South Africa ( 2003 ).

The Mazda B-series is a " non-interference " design, meaning that breakage of its timing belt does not result in damage to valves or pistons, because the opening of the valves, the depth of the combustion chamber and ( in some variants ) the shaping of the piston crown allow sufficient clearance for the open valves in any possible piston position.

Kendo practitioners however, general focus on the perfect single strike, waiting patiently for an opening and the correct timing to land a decisive attack.

Additionally the energy transferred from the piston to the crankshaft can induce as much as 2 degrees of twist in the crankshaft, which has many follow-on effects on all engine elements that require adequate timing such as valve opening, cam timing, ignition timing etc.

The main changes were to the valve timing, to give earlier opening of the inlet valves compared with the earlier 2 litre engine, though design changes to the cylinder head allowed for increased inlet valve diameters and better porting.

The timing of the formation of the Scotia plate and opening of the Drake Passage has long been the subject of much debate due to its important implications for changes in ocean currents and shifts in paleo-climate.

" We believe that the timing couldn't be better to modernize this story on the big screen, and we are proud to have Kenny Ortega at the helm ," Joe Drake, president of Lionsgate's Motion Picture Group, explained about the project.

The spread between these two prices depends mainly on the probability and the timing of the takeover being completed as well as the prevailing level of interest rates.

Generally, cylinder pressure for common automotive designs should at least equal 10 bar, or, roughly estimated in pounds per square inch ( psi ) as between 15 and 20 times the compression ratio, or in this case between 150 psi and 200 psi, depending on cam timing.

Animation showing difference between planet transit timing of 1-planet and 2-planet systems.

The number of casualties and the timing of the terror differed markedly between the Reds and Whites.

The geologic time scale is a system of chronological measurement that relates stratigraphy to time, and is used by geologists, paleontologists, and other earth scientists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred throughout Earth's history.

Sleep timing depends upon a balance between homeostatic sleep propensity, the need for sleep as a function of the amount of time elapsed since the last adequate sleep episode, and circadian rhythms that determine the ideal timing of a correctly structured and restorative sleep episode.

Although the rules seem simple, it is hard to use classical hexameter in English, because English is a stress-timed language that condenses vowels and consonants between stressed syllables, while hexameter relies on the regular timing of the phonetic sounds.

The animator can correct the result at any point, shifting keyframes back and forth to improve the timing and dynamics of a movement, or change an ' in between ' into an additional keyframe to further refine the movement.

This can have serious ramifications for discrete-time algorithms that rely on fairly consistent timing between updates such as those found in control theory.

This contributed to the rise of MIDI interfaces with multiple in-and out-ports, because timing improves when events are spread between multiple ports as opposed to multiple channels on the same port.

By determining the timing between the activation of the first and second switches, the velocity of a key press can be determined — greatly improving the performance dynamic of a keyboard.

A change in angle, albeit small, will have a detrimental effect ( especially with stereo recordings ) by creating different forces on the two groove walls, as well as a slight timing shift between left / right channels.

Adjusting the timing between when the transmitter sends a pulse and when the receiver stage is enabled will generally reduce the sunburst without affecting the accuracy of the range, since most sunburst is caused by a diffused transmit pulse reflected before it leaves the antenna.

Frequency comparison between two signals is considerably more accurate, even with older electronics, than timing the signal.

Textural study involves measurement and characterisation of foliations, crenulations, metamorphic minerals, and timing relationships between these structural features and mineralogical features.

The 1970s saw rise to similar special purpose hardware timing devices, etc., such as roulette-prediction devices using next-generation technology, in particular a group known as Eudaemonic Enterprises that used a CMOS 6502 microprocessor with 5K RAM to create a shoe-computer with inductive radio communications between a data-taker and better.

One way to maintain timing between transmitting and receiving devices is to employ an asynchronous protocol such as start-stop.

To maintain the synchronous relationship between the ports, the DSU manages timing by slaving ports to the bit rate of another or to its internal clock.

* Determination of relative timing between transmitter and receiver

Timing electronics or software would use the faster timing of the index hole between sector holes, to generate an index signal.

Isochronous timing differs from synchronous timing, in that the latter refers to relative timing between two or more sequences of events.