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Alert

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Alert (əlûrt`), settlement, on Ellesmere Island, extreme N Nunavut Territory, Canada, on the Arctic Ocean. It is the most northerly permanent settlement in the world. The settlement has a radio and meteorological station and a landing strip operated jointly by Canada and the United States.

(1) A sound or visual signal that indicates that some predefined event has occurred or some error condition has occurred. The terms alert and alarm are often used synonymously. See alarm.

(2) A document with urgent information about a threat or vulnerability such as CIAC Bulletins at http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHome.html.

(operating system)alert - /*'l*rt/ An audible and/or visual message intended to inform a system's users or administrators about a change in the operating conditions of that system or about some kind of error condition. In a graphical user interface, an alert would typically be displayed as a small window containing the message and a button to click to dismiss the window.
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For an instant he seemed to see this unnatural contest between a dead intelligence and a breathing mechanism only as a spectator--such fancies are in dreams; then he regained his identity almost as if by a leap forward into his body, and the straining automaton had a directing will as alert and fierce as that of its hideous antagonist.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Nor was it long before the ape-man came upon Bara standing alert at the edge of a moon-bathed clearing.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
He had heard noisy little Manu, and even the soft rustling of the parting shrubbery where Sheeta passed before either of these alert animals sensed his presence.
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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