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nonalarm

nonalarm adjective: not of or pertaining to an alarm.

Adjective

nonalarm (not comparable)

  1. Not of or pertaining to an alarm.
    • 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
    • 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

Origin of nonalarm

From non- + alarm.

Questions about nonalarm

What does nonalarm mean?
Nonalarm means not of or pertaining to an alarm.
What part of speech is nonalarm?
Nonalarm is an adjective.

Words near nonalarm in the dictionary

  1. nonairy
  2. nonaketide
  3. nonaketides
  4. nonakin
  5. nonal
  6. nonalarm
  7. nonalarmed
  8. nonalarming
  9. nonalarmist
  10. nonalbicans
  11. nonalbino

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