alertable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Capable of receiving and responding to notifications from other threads of execution.
adj
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.
adj
Able to respond constructively to being alerted.
Example Sentences
- "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)."
- "If you know the HANDLE of a thread you wish to signal, and that thread has performed an alertable wait, then queueing an APC is often significantly quicker than waking the target thread by using kernel objects (as we are about to review)."
- "Every thread has a queue of APCs attached to it, and these are processed when the thread is in an alertable state, such as when they call functions like WaitForSingleObjectEx, WaitForMultipleObjectsEx, and Sleep."
- "Bids marked in red on the convention card must be alerted. Cue-bids of an opponent's suit, however, are not alertable."
- "ln general, natural bids are not Alertable."
- "To alert those calls you may use the alert card in the bidding box or simply say "alert" when partner makes an alertable call."