digital watch

English

Noun

digital watch (plural digital watches)

1. A watch, usually electronic, that displays time in the form of numbers, rather than by a dial and hands.
   • 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.

Translations

A watch, usually electronic, that displays time in the form of numbers

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 跳字錶／跳字表 (tiu³ zi⁶ biu^2-1)

• Finnish: digitaalikello
• Georgian: ციფრული საათი (cipruli saati)
• German: Digitaluhr (de) f
• Spanish: reloj digital m

See also

• analogue watch