Meanings
plural stopwatches
- A timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed between a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.
I etched the face of a stopwatch on the back of a raindrop And did a swap for the sand in an hourglass
2011, Alex Turner, “Piledriver Waltz”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic MonkeysSynonyms: stop clock
present singular third person stopwatches · participle present stopwatching · participle past stopwatched · past stopwatched
- transitiveTo time (something) by means of a stopwatch.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed between a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic سَاعَةُ سِبَاق, سَاعَةُ إِيقَاف
- سَاعَةُ سِبَاق (sāʕatu sibāq)timepiece
- سَاعَةُ إِيقَاف (sāʕatu ʔīqāf)timepiece
Bengali বিরামঘড়ি
- বিরামঘড়ি (biramghoṛi)timepiece
Brazilian Portuguese cronômetro
- cronômetrotimepiece
Bulgarian хрономе́тър, секундоме́р
- хрономе́тър (hronométăr)timepiece
- секундоме́р (sekundomér)timepiece
Chinese Mandarin 秒表, 計時器 /计时器
- 秒表 (miǎobiǎo)timepiece
- 計時器 /计时器 (jìshíqì)timepiece
- 馬錶 /马表 (mǎbiǎo)timepiece
- 跑錶 /跑表 (pǎobiǎo)timepiece
Czech stopky
- stopkytimepiece
Danish stopur, løbeur
- stopurtimepiece
- løbeurtimepiece
Dutch stopwatch
- stopwatchtimepiece
Esperanto klikhorloĝo
- klikhorloĝotimepiece
Estonian stopper
- stoppertimepiece
European Portuguese cronómetro
- cronómetrotimepiece
Finnish sekuntikello, sekkari
- sekuntikellotimepiece
- sekkaritimepiece
French chronomètre, garde-temps
- chronomètretimepiece
- garde-tempstimepiece
German Stoppuhr
- Stoppuhrtimepiece
Greek χρονόμετρο
- χρονόμετρο (chronómetro)timepiece
Hindi विराम घड़ी
- विराम घड़ी (virām ghaṛī)timepiece
Hungarian stopper, stopperóra
- stoppertimepiece
- stopperóratimepiece
Icelandic skeiðklukka
- skeiðklukkatimepiece
Indonesian jam sukat, jam randek
- jam sukattimepiece
- jam randektimepiece
Italian cronometro
- cronometrotimepiece
Japanese ストップウオッチ, ストップウォッチ
- ストップウオッチ (sutoppuuotchi)timepiece
- ストップウォッチ (sutoppuwotchi)timepiece
- 秒時計 (byōdokei)timepiece
Korean 스톱워치, 초시계
- 스톱워치 (seutobwochi)timepiece
- 초시계 (chosigye)timepiece
Latvian hronometrs
- hronometrstimepiece
Lithuanian laikmatis, chronometras
- laikmatistimepiece
- chronometrastimepiece
- sekundometrastimepiece
Malay jam randik
- jam randiktimepiece
Norwegian Bokmål stoppeklokke
- stoppeklokketimepiece
Polish sekundomierz, stoper
- sekundomierztimepiece
- stopertimepiece
Romanian cronometru
- cronometrutimepiece
Russian секундоме́р
- секундоме́р (sekundomér)timepiece
Slovak stopky
- stopkytimepiece
Spanish cronómetro
- cronómetrotimepiece
Swedish stoppur, tidtagarur
- stoppurtimepiece
- tidtagarurtimepiece
Turkish kronometre
- kronometretimepiece
Ukrainian секундомі́р
- секундомі́р (sekundomír)timepiece
Vietnamese đồng hồ đếm giờ, đồng hồ bấm giờ
- đồng hồ đếm giờtimepiece
- đồng hồ bấm giờtimepiece
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Anagrams
Cite this entry
stopwatch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stopwatch
“stopwatch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stopwatch. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stopwatch,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stopwatch.
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