alarm system

Questions about alarm system

What does alarm system mean?

alarm system means "a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event".

What is another word for alarm system?

Close synonyms include alarm, warning device. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alarm system a common word?

alarm system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.