early-warning
English
editAdjective
editearly-warning (not comparable)
- (attributive) Denoting equipment and systems designed to give sufficient warning of an impending event.
- 2022 February 23, Tony Streeter, “Network News: NR begins early-warning landslip monitoring trial”, in RAIL, number 951, page 24:
- Network Rail is trialling a monitoring system that will give early warning of landslips.
Usage notes
editAlso used without a hyphen as "early warning", both as an attributive and a noun.
Further reading
edit- “early-warning”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- Early-warning radar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia