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Answer for the clue "Race timer ", 9 letters:
stopwatch

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A stopwatch is a handheld timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed from a particular time when it is activated to the time when the piece is deactivated. A large digital version of a stopwatch designed for viewing at a distance, as in a ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also stop-watch , 1737, from stop (v.) + watch (n.). \n

Usage examples of stopwatch.

Major Dillon had not one but three stopwatches, all hanging from cords around his neck, and then, as the ferrying of the avgas to the Catalina was carried out, understood what he was doing with them.

Slim and Jim have properly functioning stopwatches, each will measure the identical elapsed time.

Of course, this difference is so small that it could be detected only through a measurement whose accuracy is well beyond the capacity of hand-held stopwatches run by the press of a finger, Olympic-quality timing systems, or even the most precisely engineered atomic clocks.

True, it took only a minute or two, and the clockers stood with their stopwatches, the trainers with theirs, but it was timeless to her.

All this time the movie projector was showing blue films on the wall, and now I sat on a chair with the stopwatch to time the girls as the first one came in and stood astride him and relieved herself.

Since Jim knows that Slim is speeding along at 120 miles per hour, he is able to figure out the length of the car by multiplying this speed by the elapsed time on his stopwatch.

It told local time, Greenwich Mean Time on the twenty-four-hour system, the day of the week, the month, the phase of the Moon, and served also as a stopwatch, lap timer and alarm clock.

I had half an eye on the viewers and the other half on the stopwatch.

In the outfield Pat Gillick, the general manager of the Toronto Blue jays, stands with a stopwatch in the palm of his hand.

Like all PAs that autumn, Daysee wandered round clutching a clipboard and a stopwatch, wearing loose trousers tucked into sawn-off suede boots, and jerseys with pictures knitted on the front.

Without a calendar, a stopwatch, a measuring cup on the night table, I couldn't possibly know how to die.

This involved constructing some kind of brick oven outside, and then doing a lot of coming and going with bowls of boiling water, stopwatches, penknives and dismembered bits of the local wildlife.

Different kinds of radioactive decay-based geological stopwatches run at different rates.

In training shoes, in tracksuit bottoms (with my stopwatch and mysteroids), I cheer her on from the touchline.

Ryan clicked the stopwatch again, unjammed the camera with his other hand, and strolled over to study the sad and baffled face of Saint Sebastian.