digital watch

English

Noun

digital watch (plural digital watches)

  2. A watch (wristwatch or pocket watch), usually electronic, whose watch face displays time in the form of numbers (a digital display, rather than by a dial and hands (traditional clock face).
    Hypernyms: watch < timepiece < device
    Coordinate terms: analogue watch, analog watch; digital clock
    • 1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
      Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

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