Alarm
Alarm noun - Suspicion or fear of future harm or misfortune.
Sprinkler system and alarm are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sprinkler system" instead a noun "Alarm".
Sprinkler system
Sprinkler system noun - A system for extinguishing fires; water from a network of overhead pipes is released through nozzles that open automatically with the rise in temperature.
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Alarm and sprinkler system are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alarm" instead a noun phrase "Sprinkler system".
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Happens when a character in Joan Hess's A Conventional Corpse sets off the fire alarm at a college, and the sprinkler system goes off on every single floor of the building.
Source: Telepathic Sprinklers - Additionally, activating the fire alarm system (via a pull station or smoke/heat detector) will not trip a sprinkler system, although sprinkler systems can trip a fire alarm system if they are interconnected with each other (and they usually are).
Source: Telepathic Sprinklers
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Sprinkler system and Alarm. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/alarm/sprinkler_system
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