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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
timer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
old timer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
▪ There is such a difference between him and these old timers.
▪ Not bad for an old timer!
▪ Find where the old timers panned gold, and go to look for what they missed.
■ VERB
set
▪ Lighting is by two Floraset mercury vapour lamps which were originally set on a timer to give 11 hours of light.
▪ The 33-year-old physicist lashed his camera to an ice-pick and took the photo by setting the timer.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Did you set the timer?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sealed hotplate with concealed ignition and an automatic oven timer with the time of day clock.
▪ Add room thermostats, a timer, and thermostatic radiator valves.
▪ How about a toaster that clicked because you activated it by twisting a taut timer dial?
▪ If there are no plants, leave the light off - otherwise use a timer.
▪ S/he then pressed the button to present the stimulus card and start the timer.
▪ This is achieved by the use of a simple 555 timer circuit.
▪ Use a timer and ask the student to beat the clock.
▪ When the timer goes off, he may get up.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Timer

Timer \Tim"er\, n.

  1. A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.

  2. (Internal-combustion Engines) In electric ignition, an adjustable device for automatically timing the spark.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
timer

1908 as a mechanical device, agent noun from time (v.).

Wiktionary
timer

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.

WordNet
timer
  1. n. a timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end

  2. (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed [syn: timekeeper]

  3. a regulator that activates or deactivates a mechanism at set times

Wikipedia
Timer

A timer is a specialized type of clock for measuring time intervals. By function timers can be categorized to two main types. A timer which counts upwards from zero for measuring elapsed time is often called a stopwatch; a device which counts down from a specified time interval is more usually called a timer or a countdown timer. A simple example for this type is an hourglass. By working method timers have two main groups: Hardware and Software timers.

Some timers sound an audible indication that the time interval has expired.

Time switches, timing mechanisms which activate a switch, are sometimes also called "timers". On August 12, 2016 Progressive Little Ben Timer turned 17 and tonight, Progressive Little Ben Timer is having a happy belated 17th birthday and turning 17 on Google. Progressive Little Ben Timer is now at age 17.

Timer (film)

Timer (stylized as TiMER) is a 2009 science-fiction romantic comedy film by Jac Schaeffer about a device that counts down to the moment one meets their soulmate.

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.