Alertable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Alertable is an adjective meaning (programming) Capable of receiving and responding to notifications from other threads of execution.
Meaning
(programming) Capable of receiving and responding to notifications from other threads of execution.
More Meanings
- Able to respond constructively to being alerted.
- (bridge) 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.
Example Sentences
ln general, natural bids are not Alertable.
Bids marked in red on the convention card must be alerted. Cue-bids of an opponent's suit, however, are not alertable.
To alert those calls you may use the alert card in the bidding box or simply say "alert" when partner makes an alertable call.
Those members of our society who are alertable now know that there are serious global problems of environmental deterioration and resource depletion.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include alert, programmable, alerted, synchronizable, multithreadable, activatable.
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