Aikaistaa

Aikaistaa is a Finnish verb meaning to adjust the timing of something so that it matches a desired time, tempo, or timetable. The core idea is to change when events occur relative to a reference time.

In everyday language, aikaistaa is used when schedules or deadlines are moved or refined. For example, a project timeline or production process may be aikaistettu (time-shifted) to meet a deadline, or a meeting can be aikaistaa to an earlier hour. The nuance is focused on altering timing rather than creating a schedule from scratch.

In professional and technical contexts, aikaistaa can refer to aligning events with a time code, reference clock, or tempo. In media production and audio-visual work, it may describe adjusting the timing of audio and video elements so they synchronize properly. In music technology, it can relate to time-stretching or time-compressing as part of tempo adjustment, sometimes described as changing the timing of passages to fit a target duration.

Linguistically, aikaistaa is a transitive verb derived from aika (time) with the causative suffix -istaa. The related noun aikaistaminen denotes the act of adjusting timing. The term coexists with other time-related verbs in Finnish, such as aikatauluttaa (to schedule according to a timetable) and ajoitus (timing or timing of events).

See also: aikataulutus, ajoitus, synkronointi.