stopwatch
noun
stop·watch
ˈstäp-ˌwäch 
: a watch with a hand or a digital display that can be started and stopped at will for exact timing (as of a race)
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As the season unfolded, Ohtani took particular interest in trying to identify such cues himself, sometimes reviewing video in the dugout with a stopwatch in hand.
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Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
At the 1932 Los Angeles Games, a single Omega watchmaker traveled from Switzerland with a suitcase of 30 stopwatches, each equipped with a split-second hand that could be stopped independently to measure split times while the race timing continued—producing accurate times for all competitors.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
Like my old model, the new one has a stopwatch that measures hundredths of a second.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
The most precise and accurate atomic clock in the world, the ultracold strontium clock at JILA in Boulder, is like a stopwatch that can count the billionths of a nanosecond, or 18 digits past the decimal point.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
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Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024
At the 1932 Los Angeles Games, a single Omega watchmaker traveled from Switzerland with a suitcase of 30 stopwatches, each equipped with a split-second hand that could be stopped independently to measure split times while the race timing continued—producing accurate times for all competitors.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
Like my old model, the new one has a stopwatch that measures hundredths of a second.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
The most precise and accurate atomic clock in the world, the ultracold strontium clock at JILA in Boulder, is like a stopwatch that can count the billionths of a nanosecond, or 18 digits past the decimal point.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Stopwatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stopwatch. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.
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stopwatch
noun
stop·watch
ˈstäp-ˌwäch
: a watch having a hand or a digital display that can be started and stopped for exact timing (as of a race)
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