{"id":100,"date":"2013-04-18T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-12-31T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T10:01:22","slug":"stopwatch-dictionary-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/stopwatch-dictionary-displays\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopwatch Dictionary: Displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve browsed around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saturnstopwatches.co.uk\/\" title=\"Saturn Stopwatches\">our website<\/a>, you&#8217;ll have undoubtedly come across stopwatches described as having a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saturnstopwatches.co.uk\/6-single-display-stopwatches\" title=\"Single display stopwatches\">single display<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saturnstopwatches.co.uk\/7-dual-display-stopwatches\" title=\"Dual display stopwatches\">dual display<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saturnstopwatches.co.uk\/8-triple-display-stopwatches\" title=\"Triple display stopwatches\">triple display<\/a>&#8221; or even a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saturnstopwatches.co.uk\/35-fastime-26-stopwatch.html\" title=\"Quad display stopwatch\">quad display<\/a>&#8220;. If you&#8217;ve never purchased a stopwatch before, or have only ever used basic stopwatches, this terminology may be confusing.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do we mean by a &#8220;triple display&#8221; stopwatch, for example? <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The answer is actually simpler than you might imagine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101\" alt=\"Triple display stopwatch screen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/triple-display-stopwatch.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"110\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Triple display stopwatch screen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A stopwatch with a triple display refers to the number of rows or lines of digits on its screen. A triple display stopwatch will feature three rows of digits across its display. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you&#8217;ll see this referred to as a &#8220;3-line&#8221; or &#8220;3-row&#8221; display, but essentially those terms would all mean the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a single display stopwatch (sometimes called a &#8220;1-line&#8221; or &#8220;1-row&#8221; display) will have just one row of digits across its screen. A dual display stopwatch (sometimes a &#8220;2-line&#8221; or &#8220;2-row&#8221; display) will have two lines of digits etc.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_102\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102\" alt=\"Single, dual, triple and quad displays.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/display-stopwatch-guide.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/display-stopwatch-guide.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/display-stopwatch-guide-300x110.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Examples of single, dual, triple and quad display stopwatches.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Single display stopwatches tend to offer fewer features and often lack the ability to store lap times in memory.<\/p>\n<p>Stopwatches that feature multiple rows of digits however typically incorporate more advanced timing functionality. Dual, triple and quad display stopwatches allow for quick and easy access to current\/previous timing information and take advantage of the greater range of information that can be displayed simultaneously on screen at any one time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve browsed around our website, you&#8217;ll have undoubtedly come across stopwatches described as having a &#8220;single display&#8220;, &#8220;dual display&#8220;, &#8220;triple display&#8221; or even a &#8220;quad display&#8220;. If you&#8217;ve never purchased a stopwatch before, or have only ever used basic stopwatches, this terminology may be confusing. So, what do we mean by a &#8220;triple display&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stopwatches"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturnsports.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}