Timer
A timer or auto timer was a type of clock that when set, indicated a specific amount of time had passed. It could be used to trigger a function to happen automatically. The term time factor referred to the amount a time remained on a time until said time expired.

In 2154, Malcolm Reed noted that a bomb's timer was broken, but the explosive itself was armed. ()

's transporter had a timer. In 2269, Montgomery Scott set the timer on the transporters to a 10 minute automatic return for James T. Kirk when the captain beamed down to Terra 10.  ()

The time-pod stolen by Berlinghoff Rasmussen had an auto timer which would take its occupants to 22nd century New Jersey. ()

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