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語源

From stop +‎ watch.

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名詞

stopwatch (plural stopwatches)

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

   Synonym: stop clock

   • 2011, Alex Turner, “Piledriver Waltz”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic Monkeys:

     I etched the face of a stopwatch on the back of a raindrop
     And did a swap for the sand in an hourglass

動詞

stopwatch (third-person singular simple present stopwatches, present participle stopwatching, simple past and past participle stopwatched)

1. (transitive) To time (something) by means of a stopwatch.

参考

• timer