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Definition of Timers
1. timer [n] - See also: timer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timers
Literary usage of Timers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"timers, or primary commutators, as they are commonly called, are devices whose
object ... The principle of operation of all timers is practically the same, ..."
2. Global Employment: An International Investigation Into the Future of Work by Mihály Simai (1995)
"However, most female part-timers still live in households where there is ...
The proportion of part-timers is largest among employees under 20 years or over ..."
3. The Gasoline Automobile by George William Hobbs (1915)
"timers.—Figure 142 shows the timer used on the Ford engine. ... The timers for
six- and eight-cylinder engines are similar to the above, but have six or ..."
4. The Health of Nations: A Review of the Works of Edwin Chadwick by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, Edwin Chadwick (1887)
"MATERNAL LoNG timers AND SCHOOL HALF-timers. " We have numerous mothers of small
means who are compelled to act as schoolmistresses in the education of ..."
5. Handbook of Ship Calculations, Construction and Operation: A Book of by Charles Haynes Hughes (1917)
"With a distributor (see timers and Distributors) only a single coil is required.
High tension systems are particularly adapted for high speed engines, ..."
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