early-warning

English

Adjective

early-warning (not comparable)

(attributive) Denoting equipment and systems designed to give sufficient warning of an impending event.
- 2022 February 23, Tony Streeter, “Network News: NR begins early-warning landslip monitoring trial”, in RAIL, number 951, page 24:
  Network Rail is trialling a monitoring system that will give early warning of landslips.

Usage notes

Also used without a hyphen as "early warning", both as an attributive and a noun.

Further reading

“early-warning”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Early-warning radar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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