stopwatch
verbEtymology From stop + watch.
1
To time (something) by means of a stopwatch.
- Related terms
- timer
stopwatch
nounEtymology From stop + watch.
1
A timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed between a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.
- I etched the face of a stopwatch on the back of a raindrop And did a swap for the sand in an hourglass2011, Alex Turner, “Piledriver Waltz”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic Monkeys: