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Stopwatch vs Timer - What's the difference?

stopwatch | timer |

As nouns the difference between stopwatch and timer

is that stopwatch is a timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed from a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated while timer is someone or something which times.

stopwatch

English

(wikipedia stopwatch)

Noun

  • A timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed from a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.

    • timer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something which times.
  • A device used to measure amounts of time.
  • Any electronic function that causes a device to be able to do something automatically after a preset amount of time.

    • Derived terms

    * egg timer, egg-timer

    See also

    * programmable

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