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stopwatches

stopwatches is the plural of stopwatch.

stopwatches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stopwatch.

Meaning of stopwatch

Noun

stopwatch (plural stopwatches)

  1. 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 hourglass2011, Alex Turner, “Piledriver Waltz”, in Suck It And See, performed by Arctic Monkeys
    Synonyms:
    stop clock

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Questions about stopwatches

What is stopwatches the plural of?
Stopwatches is the plural of stopwatch.

Words near stopwatches in the dictionary

  1. stopstreet
  2. stopstreets
  3. stopt
  4. stopwatch
  5. stopwatched
  6. stopwatches
  7. stopwatching
  8. stopway
  9. stopways
  10. stopword
  11. stopwords

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stopwatches (page history and authors); stopwatch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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