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Timer
A kernel resource that triggers an event at a specified interval. The event can occur only once or can be recurring. Timers are one of the input sources for run loops. Timers are also implemented at higher levels of the system, such as CFTimer in Core Foundation and NSTimer in Cocoa.
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