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 Translation for 'stop watch' from English to French
NOUN   a stop watch | stop watches
SYNO stop watch | stopwatch
horl.sport
chronomètre {m}
stop watch
Partial Matches
horl.
horlogerie {f} [objet]
watch
horl.
bracelet {m} de montre
watch band
mil.
faire la sentinelle
to keep watch
sentinelle {f}watch [guard]
surveillance {f}watch [lookout]
19
garde {f} de nuitnight watch
horl.
montre(-bracelet) {f}
wrist watch
Gare !Watch out!
horl.
horloge {f} à quartz
quartz watch
horl.
montre {f} à quartz
quartz watch
horl.
boîtier {m} de montre
watch case
regarder qc.to watch sth.
11
horl.
montre {f} de poche
pocket watch
horl.
montre {f} de gousset
fob watch
horl.
montre {f} de précision
precision watch
horl.
montre {f} étanche
waterproof watch
horl.
montre {f} à gousset
fob watch
montre {f}watch [wristwatch]
26
horl.
mouvement {m} d'horlogerie
watch mechanism
mil.
ronde {f} [de soldats]
watch [soldier]
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Usage Examples English
  • For example, if everything were postponed by two hours, including the two events and the path you took to go from one to the other, then the time interval between the events recorded by a stop-watch you carried with you would be the same.
  • The time taken for the liquid level to pass between two pre-set marks on the tube is measured by stop-watch.
  • The software also comes equipped with basic utilities like a stop watch and calculator.
  • A sound ranger used aural and stop-watch methods which first emerged before World War I.
  • Many riders wear a stop-watch to track their time so that they may adjust their speed to come in as close as possible to the optimum time.

  • Ophthalmoscope or alternative source of light (e.g.penlight), stop watch, distance vision charts like a Snellen chart.
  • The stop watch can also record split times and 1st and 2nd place times.
  • In 1929, the Society supported Southern textile workers in their strike against the Bedaux System, which textile workers believed was 'even worse than the old "Taylor Stop-Watch System"'.
  • The term "real time" in this context refers to elapsed wall-clock time, like using a stop watch.
  • Some scholars suspect that the clepsydra may have been used as a stop-watch for imposing a time limit on clients' visits in Athenian brothels.

  • If you consider an experimenter taking a reading of the time period of a pendulum swinging past a fiducial marker: If their stop-watch or timer starts with 1 second on the clock then all of their results will be off by 1 second (zero error).
  • A stop watch, either spring wound or digital, may also be used for celestial observations.
  • He also acquired a range of other instruments, including a mysterious 'akaremeter' which seems to have been the equivalent of a modern stop-watch.
  • Another feature of the HP-55 was that it officially featured a stop-watch function much similar to the hidden stop-watch function of the earlier HP-45 calculator.
  • Heidi Beck, a professional nurse was retained; she acquired a stop watch for every minute the baby was under the light.

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