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nonalarm en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + alarm.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not of or pertaining to an alarm.
    • Static systems always represent the secure condition by the same signal; during nonalarm states, the line supervision signal can be easily discovered... 2005, Mary Lynn Garcia, Vulnerability assessment of physical protection systems:
    • The bird apparently realized that the alarm call was no longer appropriate and switched to the nonalarm call in mid-vocalization. 1986, Robert W Mitchell, Nicholas S Thompson, Deception, perspectives on human and nonhuman deceit: