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Stop watch   /stɑp wɑtʃ/   Listen
Stop watch

noun
1.
A timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race).  Synonym: stopwatch.






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"Stop watch" Quotes from Famous Books



... spoke up: "I kept tabs on it, and it's just the same time practically as the Colonel took on his stop watch yesterday. We've got them ...
— The Preacher of Cedar Mountain - A Tale of the Open Country • Ernest Thompson Seton

... but with an air of dignity, quickly glanced at his stop watch as a small figure, crouched over a shining black neck, shot by. With a thunder of hoofs the black horse whirled past and fought for her head down the stretch. She would win the following Saturday—she ...
— The 1926 Tatler • Various

... time repaired, and reproduced as far as possible the conditions which obtained on the night of the murder. He had the same stifling fire, the same locked door. The latch was dropped in its socket, whilst T. X., with a stop watch in his hand, made elaborate calculations and acted certain parts which he did not ...
— The Clue of the Twisted Candle • Edgar Wallace



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