Alarm and Sensor

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Alarm noun - Suspicion or fear of future harm or misfortune.

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Sensor and alarm are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sensor" instead a noun "Alarm".

Nearby Words: alarming, alarmed, alarmingly, alarmist

Sensor noun - A device that detects some physical quantity and responds usually with a transmitted signal.

Usage example: the thief accidentally triggered the motion sensor, which set off the alarm

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Alarm and sensor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alarm" instead a noun "Sensor".

Nearby Words: sensitive, sensed, sensing, sensory

The guards see the sensor has been triggered, but hearing every alarm in the parking lot go off, they assume that it was an earth tremor and reset the sensor.

Source: Cacophony Cover-Up
In "The First David Job", Hardison covers up Parker lifting the statue from a vibration sensor by triggering every car alarm in the parking lot.

Source: Cacophony Cover-Up
An early episode of Burn Notice features Michael using a ring tone on his phone as an alarm for when someone sets off a motion sensor he sets up at a safe house for the clients of the week.

Source: Embarrassing Ringtone

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