Definitions for timer

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timer tim·er

Spelling: [tahy-mer]

IPA: /ˈtaɪ mər/

Timer is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in timer (eimrt).

Definitions for timer

noun

1. a person or thing that times.
2. a person who measures or records time.
3. a device for indicating or measuring elapsed time, as a stopwatch.
4. a device for controlling machinery, appliances, or the like, in a specified way at a predetermined time:
5. (in an internal-combustion engine) a set of points actuated by a cam, which causes the spark for igniting the charge at the instant required.

Origin of timer

First recorded in 1490-1500; time + -er¹

Examples for timer

It was two hours before I located the same, which was caused by the timer.

But in the end, after the timer buzzed, she assured us it was all “for our children.”

Another technique that utilizes the timer is the Tabata protocol.

He jimmied the timer on the rocket motor so it would fire to the last drop.

And have a man from the garage with extra tires and a timer for the carburetor.

It also has a rechargeable battery and a timer, so you can leave it to set to work and return to a good-as-new grill later.

I set the timer on my iPhone so that it goes off when I need to stop writing and attend to something else.

Two lights crossed the lenses of her eyes, but no timer could have caught them.

I suppose the rascally spy isn't still in this clump of timer, eh?

Cheaper models are just an electric heating element and a timer, at which point, you might as well just go back to the stovetop.