sentinel
/ˈsɛn.tɪ.nəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A unique value recognised by a computer program for processing in a special way, or marking the end of a set of data.
noun
noun
A sign of a health risk (e.g. a disease, an adverse effect).
name
A place in the United States:
Example Sentences
- "They promised faithfully to bear their confinement with patience, and were very thankful that they had such good usage as to have provisions and light left them; for Friday gave them candles (such as we made ourselves) for their comfort; and they did not know but that he stood sentinel over them at the entrance."
- "the sentinels who paced the ramparts"
- "that princes do keep due sentinel"
- "“I will not permit the poorest centinel to be treated with injustice.”"
- "The tag is a sentinel that suspends web-page processing and displays the subsequent text literally"
- "[…] a sentinel value that indicates a missing entry."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Middle French
- First known use: First attested in the 1570s
Word Breakdown
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Military.