Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A watch which records small fractions of a second, and in which the hands can be stopped at any instant, so as to mark the exact time at which some event occurs: chiefly used in timing races.
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Examples
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At the Bethlehem Steel works in Pennsylvania, Taylor gave out shovels specifically designed to hold 21 pounds--small ones for shoveling ashes, big ones for shoveling iron ore--and made "thousands of stop-watch observations" to calculate the most efficient shoveling method.
How To Shovel Snow Without (Literally) Killing Yourself Slate 2011
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I think it's reasonable to say that she's involved with the Master's regeneration process somehow, either as a keeper of the ring (that's really something like a stop-watch and hold his consciousness), or as the human half of a metacrisis.
Doctor Who Spoiler Photo Circulating...A Pony Discussion, of course! rabid1st 2009
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At the Bethlehem Steel works in Pennsylvania, Taylor gave out shovels specifically designed to hold 21 pounds--small ones for shoveling ashes, big ones for shoveling iron ore--and made "thousands of stop-watch observations" to calculate the most efficient shoveling method.
How To Shovel Snow Without (Literally) Killing Yourself Slate 2011
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Lewis 'athleticsm does not explain the stop-watch readings, however, since the stop-watch might have been stopped by all sorts of things.
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Using your terminology, is the fact that one stop-watch is stopped under four-minutes and the other at 11 seconds best explained by his athleticism?
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Great idea for a TV sports gimmick that at least two stations thought of this week: have an on-air reporter attempt the Albert Haynesworth conditioning test, and then show video of the hilarious results, complete with the flashing stop-watch.
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CHRONOGRAPH A wristwatch that also includes stop-watch functions to mark intervals of time.
Glossary of Watch Terms Ken Kessler 2010
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Using your terminology, is the fact that one stop-watch is stopped under four-minutes and the other at 11 seconds best explained by his athleticism?
Bunny and a Book 2008
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CHRONOGRAPH A wristwatch that also includes stop-watch functions to mark intervals of time.
Glossary of Watch Terms Ken Kessler 2010
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CHRONOGRAPH A wristwatch that also includes stop-watch functions to mark intervals of time.
Glossary of Watch Terms Ken Kessler 2010
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