alertable

Adjective

alertable (not comparable)

1. Capable of receiving and responding to notifications from other threads of execution.
   • Since your thread is in an alertable state, as soon as an APC entry appears, the system wakes your thread and empties the queue (by calling the callback routines).2000, Jeffrey Richter, Jason D. Clark, Programming Server-side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000
   • If you know the HANDLE of a thread you wish to signal, and that thread has performed an alertable wait, then queueing an APC is often significantly quicker than waking the target thread by using kernel objects (as we are about to review).2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows
2. Requiring the partner of the person making a bid to alert the opponents that the bid's meaning involves a partnership understanding that is not readily understood.
   • Bids marked in red on the convention card must be alerted. Cue-bids of an opponent's suit, however, are not alertable.1991, Albert Hodges Morehead, Edmond Hoyle, The New Complete Hoyle, page 165
   • ln general, natural bids are not Alertable.1994, Audrey Grant, The Spade Series: An Introduction to Duplicate Bridge, page 165
3. Able to respond constructively to being alerted.
   • The whole party, with the concentration of legal ammunition, the relaxed but alertable force of the deputies, weighed heavily against the slight presence of Mr. Grimes sitting beyond the pale, on the silent side of the bar.1952, Truman Nelson, The Sin of the Prophet, page 48
   • Those members of our society who are alertable now know that there are serious global problems of environmental deterioration and resource depletion.1973, Equilibrium - Volume 1, page 35