pacing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of pace

plural pacings

1. The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.

   We have repeatedly referred to the usefulness of steps, lines, ticks, clocks, routines, pacings, etc. - scales, measures, series, patterns, disposed in a fixed and regular and conventional space-time.

   1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

2. narrativeThe speed at which a story is told.