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 Translation for 'false alarm' from English to Danish
NOUN   a false alarm | false alarms
false alarmfalsk alarm {fk}
false {adj}falsk
false {adj}uægte
entom.T
false heath fritillary [Melitaea diamina] [butterfly]
mørk pletvinge {fk}
alarm clockvækkeur {n}
smoke alarmrøgalarm {fk}
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Usage Examples English
  • A "false positive" or "false alarm" is when antivirus software identifies a non-malicious file as malware.
  • Ch. 11 (41): Richard talks to Ivanhoe and dines with the outlaws before Robin arranges a false alarm to put an end to the delay. The party arrive at Coningsburgh.
  • Visible satellite imagery is beginning to be used to detect hail, but false alarm rates remain high using this method.
  • This led to some students advocating for an outright ban of the sorority responsible for the false alarm.
  • False Alarm or Just Practicing – Tongue-in-cheek term used when one calls bingo but is mistaken.

  • They receive a false alarm phone call, then Masami goes to the toilet.
  • With regards to an accidental nuclear war, Perry has experienced a false alarm for an incoming missile which later turned out to be a computer error.
  • This false alarm demonstrated major flaws in the practical implementation of an EAN.
  • Many avoid the risk of false alarms by ensuring their alarms are secured in an appropriate location, such as placing a smoke detector or fire alarm away from the kitchen where smoke from burned food or large quantities of steam which may trigger a false alarm are common occurrences.
  • A false alarm occurred on the Soviet nuclear early warning system, showing the launch of American LGM-30 Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles from bases in the United States.

  • Petrov correctly assessed the situation as a false alarm, and hence did not report his finding to his superiors.
  • This explains why they may frequently false alarm from the fumes emitted from the red-hot heating elements of a toaster, before the presence of visible smoke, yet they may fail to activate in the early, low-heat smoldering stage of a fire.
  • Constant false alarm rate, a form of automatic gain control (AGC), is a method that relies on clutter returns far outnumbering echoes from targets of interest.
  • From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in e"Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" and glossed by the "Oxford English Dictionary" as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true claims are disbelieved.
  • 3% false alarm rate.

  • Policies like this one have been created to combat the 94–99 percent rate of false alarm activation in the United States.
  • Regularly, even when an alarm does sound, a shoplifter walks out casually and is not confronted if no guards are present because of the high number of false alarms, especially in malls, due to "tag pollution" whereby non-deactivated tags from other stores set off the alarm.
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