autotimer

English edit

autotimer (plural autotimers)

An automatic timer.
- 1981, Anthony Byers, Centenary of Service: A History of Electricity in the Home, page 29:
  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!
- 2011, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 87:
  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 […]