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Answer for the clue "Sometimes egg-shaped kitchen gadget ", 5 letters:
timer

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Word definitions for timer in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone or something which times. 2 A device used to measure amounts of time. 3 Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time.

Usage examples of timer.

Ferrol said, keeping the bulk of his attention on the capacitor countdown timer and the scene on the main tactical display.

They saw the models of the automatic kneaders, the vitaminizers, the remote signal thermostats and timers and controls.

Where lumes provided light, they had been turned to their lowest setting by automatic timer.

He and his comrades had loaded more than fifty kilos of high explosive and a timer under the seat of the pedicab and in the steel tubing of the frame.

As his host listened and asked questions, Tiny Idaho rifled through a series of tool chests and parts drawers, pulling out lengths of wire, a soldering iron, and a digital timer.

While your timer stopped when you reached the circle--your belt transponder clicked it off when you lined up in the quay zone--and resumed only as long as you were in the circle, this was where most testees hurt their scores.

If for some reason your wristband detects that it is no longer surrounded by the electric field, it automatically sets a timer for self-detonation.

What happened was that Brewster had programmed the machine, entered the auto-return sequence, and tripped the timer switch to send it back.

The timer had three redundant firing circuits, and all went off within a millisecond of one another, sending a signal down the detonator wires.

A timer rebooted him after a certain period, but we found out pretty quickly that sleep came almost instantly.

He rarely worked with the programming system used by vari-grav controllers, but he recognized a timer series and a subroutine call keyed to the timer reading.

Then he reached forward, groped blindly into the fresh earthfall, and at last felt the timer.

As the Endpoint system had recently topped the fifteen thousand mark, AASU practically qualified as an old timer.

In experiments I had already done with Professor Dean, I would insert my hand into the hole in the bag, and put three fingertips at the top of the film for the first exposure made with a timer for two seconds.

He interchanged the leads to lockers one and three, so that the thawing timer meant for unit one controlled his own locker.