egg timer

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word egg timer. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word egg timer, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say egg timer in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word egg timer you have here. The definition of the word egg timer will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofegg timer, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: egg-timer and eggtimer

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
A kitchen timer.
Ticking sound of a kitchen timer.

Noun

egg timer (plural egg timers)

  1. A small version of an hourglass used to time the boiling of an egg.
  2. (by extension) A timer that can be set to sound an alarm after a certain amount of time; a kitchen timer.
  3. (computing) An hourglass mouse pointer.

Hypernyms

Translations

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia