timer
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
timer/ˈtʌɪmə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 an automatic mechanism for activating a device at a preset time.
- 2 a person or device that records the amount of time taken by a process or activity.
- 3 [in combination] indicating how many times someone has done something: a first-timer.
'timer' also found in these Oxford entries:
big time
- egg timer
- full-time
- good-time
- old-timer
- part-time
- self-timer
- small-time
- two-time
