An auction is where the bidding is taking place.
where:
Timeouts is the time spend to wait for a response before showing an ad.
A timeout let publishers balance experience and revenue, deciding exactly how long (500 milliseconds? One second?) they can wait for bid responses.
only for header bidding ??
Auctions in offsite servers run faster than auctions that run client side, for instance, in a mobile web browser such as for header bidding.
An house is where the bidding takes place.
See Ad - Ad Exchange