autotimer

plural autotimers

1. An automatic timer.

   Not all the early autotimers were easy to use: one owner awoke at 3.00 am on Christmas morning to smell his turkey cooked and ready for eating twelve hours too soon!

   1981, Anthony Byers, Centenary of Service: A History of Electricity in the Home, page 29

   1 more example

   On December 7, 1941, a California surfer named Don James set the autotimer on his camera and took a photo of himself and two friends standing with their boards in front of a rented bungalow […]

   2011, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 87