warning device

Questions about warning device

What does warning device mean?

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

What is another word for warning device?

Close synonyms include alarm, alarm system. 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 warning device a common word?

warning device 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.