Timekeeper
noun
A person who measures or records the amount of time taken by a process or activity.
In the football match, a timekeeper is responsible for keeping track of the time.

Often appears as...
- official timekeeper
- precision timekeeper
noun
A device, such as a clock or watch, that measures time.
My computer has an internal timekeeper that maintains the system time.

Often appears as...
- internal timekeeper
- digital timekeeper
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Technical
noun
A person who measures or records the amount of time taken by a process or activity.
In the football match, a timekeeper is responsible for keeping track of the time.

Often appears as...
- official timekeeper
- precision timekeeper
noun
A device, such as a clock or watch, that measures time.
My computer has an internal timekeeper that maintains the system time.

Often appears as...
- internal timekeeper
- digital timekeeper
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2

Role in Sports
Refers to someone keeping official game time, often seen in sports like football or basketball.

The timekeeper indicated there were two minutes left in the game.
Record Keeping
Involves documenting the duration of events for accuracy, such as in work or study environments.

She acted as a timekeeper during the exam, ensuring students adhered to the time limit.
Event Coordination
Aids in scheduling and timing at events to ensure everything runs on time, like conferences or festivals.

Our timekeeper ensures each speaker presents for exactly fifteen minutes.
Role in Sports
Refers to someone keeping official game time, often seen in sports like football or basketball.

The timekeeper indicated there were two minutes left in the game.
Record Keeping
Involves documenting the duration of events for accuracy, such as in work or study environments.

She acted as a timekeeper during the exam, ensuring students adhered to the time limit.
Event Coordination
Aids in scheduling and timing at events to ensure everything runs on time, like conferences or festivals.

Our timekeeper ensures each speaker presents for exactly fifteen minutes.
Role in Sports
Refers to someone keeping official game time, often seen in sports like football or basketball.

The timekeeper indicated there were two minutes left in the game.
Record Keeping
Involves documenting the duration of events for accuracy, such as in work or study environments.

She acted as a timekeeper during the exam, ensuring students adhered to the time limit.
Event Coordination
Aids in scheduling and timing at events to ensure everything runs on time, like conferences or festivals.

Our timekeeper ensures each speaker presents for exactly fifteen minutes.
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The joy of shopping --...
to negotiate a big discount. Each of us had different roles. One was great at putting the look together. Another one was better at negotiating the discount. And a third was always the timekeeper to make sure that we got back to school on time.
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How does your body know...
Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. We owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains.
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Meditations on Time PIPE...
goes around the circle in the summer the moon goes around the circle in the winter those are the timekeepers out here the change of the seasons that's my calendar don't use a calendar don't use a watch
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When is elsewhen? PIPE E...
is the personal timekeeper it's a simple plot with one button that displays your personal time and it comes with the little pamphlet that is describing what is encouraged and discouraged while
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A Collection Of Autumn...
fireweed is the first to stick its claim it flowers through the hazy days and alaskans call it summer's timekeeper the flowers unfold
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The joy of shopping --...
to negotiate a big discount. Each of us had different roles. One was great at putting the look together. Another one was better at negotiating the discount. And a third was always the timekeeper to make sure that we got back to school on time.
Video examples
How does your body know...
Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. We owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains.
Video examples
Meditations on Time PIPE...
goes around the circle in the summer the moon goes around the circle in the winter those are the timekeepers out here the change of the seasons that's my calendar don't use a calendar don't use a watch
Video examples
When is elsewhen? PIPE E...
is the personal timekeeper it's a simple plot with one button that displays your personal time and it comes with the little pamphlet that is describing what is encouraged and discouraged while
Video examples
A Collection Of Autumn...
fireweed is the first to stick its claim it flowers through the hazy days and alaskans call it summer's timekeeper the flowers unfold
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Quote examples
Taylor Hawkins
American Musician
In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

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Roger Bannister
British Athlete
The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

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William McKinley
American President
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

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Taylor Hawkins
American Musician
In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

Quote examples
Roger Bannister
British Athlete
The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

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William McKinley
American President
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

Example 1 of 3
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