Alertable
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Capable of receiving and responding to notifications from other threads of execution. not-comparable
"Since your thread is in an alertable state, as soon as an APC entry appears, the system wakes your thread and empties the queue (by calling the callback routines)."
- 2 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. not-comparable
"Bids marked in red on the convention card must be alerted. Cue-bids of an opponent's suit, however, are not alertable."
- 3 Able to respond constructively to being alerted. not-comparable
"The whole party, with the concentration of legal ammunition, the relaxed but alertable force of the deputies, weighed heavily against the slight presence of Mr. Grimes sitting beyond the pale, on the silent side of the bar."
Example
More examples"Since your thread is in an alertable state, as soon as an APC entry appears, the system wakes your thread and empties the queue (by calling the callback routines)."
Etymology
From alert + -able.
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