autotimer
nounEtymology From auto- + timer.
1
An automatic timer.
- Not all the early autotimers were easy to use: one owner awoke at 3.00 am on Christmas morning to smell his turkey cooked and ready for eating twelve hours too soon!1981, Anthony Byers, Centenary of Service: A History of Electricity in the Home, page 29:
- On December 7, 1941, a California surfer named Don James set the autotimer on his camera and took a photo of himself and two friends standing with their boards in front of a rented bungalow […]2011, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 87: