pausing

English

Verb

pausing

1. present participle and gerund of pause

Noun

pausing (countable and uncountable, plural pausings)

1. A pause.
   • c. 1650, John Lightfoot, The Temple-Service:

     And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]