scheduling

1. present participle and gerund of schedule

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.