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early-warning

early-warning adjective: denoting equipment and systems designed to give sufficient warning of an impending event.

Adjective

early-warning (not comparable)

  1. (attributive) Denoting equipment and systems designed to give sufficient warning of an impending event.
    • Network Rail is trialling a monitoring system that will give early warning of landslips.2022 February 23, Tony Streeter, “Network News: NR begins early-warning landslip monitoring trial”, in RAIL, number 951, page 24

Forms of early-warning

alternative formearly warning

Words formed from early-warning

Questions about early-warning

What does early-warning mean?
Early-warning means denoting equipment and systems designed to give sufficient warning of an impending event.
What part of speech is early-warning?
Early-warning is an adjective.

Words near early-warning in the dictionary

  1. early-purple orchid
  2. early-purple orchids
  3. early-to-bedder
  4. early-type star
  5. early-type stars
  6. early-warning
  7. earlycomer
  8. earlycomers
  9. earlyish
  10. Earlys
  11. Earlywine

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