Crossword clues for vigilance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vigilance \Vig"i*lance\, n. [L. vigilantia: cf. F. vigilance.]
The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.
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Watchfulness in respect of danger; care; caution; circumspection.
--Cowper.And flaming ministers to watch and tend Their earthly charge; of these the vigilance I dread.
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Guard; watch. [Obs.] ``In at this gate none pass the vigilance here placed.''
--Milton.Vigilance committee, a volunteer committee of citizens for the oversight and protection of any interest, esp. one organized for the summary suppression and punishment of crime, as when the processes of law appear inadequate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from Middle French vigilance (16c.), from Latin vigilantia "wakefulness, watchfulness, attention," from vigil "watchful, awake" (see vigil). Related: Vigilancy (1530s).
Wiktionary
n. alert watchfulness.
WordNet
n. the process of paying close and continuous attention [syn: watchfulness, alertness]
vigilant attentiveness; "he keeps a weather eye open for trouble" [syn: watchfulness, weather eye]
Wikipedia
Vigilance is a third-person shooter developed by Postlinear and released by SegaSoft in 1998 for the PC.
Vigilance may refer to:
- Alertness
- Vigilance (psychology), the ability to maintain attention and alertness over prolonged periods of time
- Vigilance (Behavioural Ecology), the watchfulness of prey for nearby predators
- Vigilance (album), by Threat Signal
- Vigilance, a creature ability in the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game
- Vigilance control on railways
- Vigilance (video game), a 1998 PC game by SegaSoft
- ZPG-3W, largest US Navy non-rigid airship ever built
Vigilance is the second official full-length studio album by the Canadian melodic death metal band Threat Signal, released three years after their first album Under Reprisal. It was entirely produced and recorded by the band. The album shifted some 1,100 copies in its first week of sale in the United States.
In modern psychology, vigilance, also termed sustained concentration, is defined as the ability to maintain concentrated attention over prolonged periods of time. During this time, the person attempts to detect the appearance of a particular target stimulus. The individual watches for a signal stimulus that may occur at an unknown time. The study of vigilance has expanded since the 1940s mainly due to the increased interaction of people with machines for applications involving monitoring and detection of rare events and weak signals. Such applications include air traffic control, inspection and quality control, automated navigation, military and border surveillance, and lifeguarding.
Vigilance, in the field of behavioural ecology, refers to an animal’s examination of its surroundings in order to heighten awareness of predator presence. Vigilance is an important behaviour during foraging as animals must often venture away from the safety of shelter to find food. However being vigilant comes at the expense of time spent feeding so there is a trade-off between the two. The length of time animals devote to vigilance is dependent on many factors including predation risk and hunger.
Vigilance is often observed in animals that forage in groups, such as yellow-eyed juncos (Junco phaeonutus) and meerkats (Suricata suricatta). Foraging in groups dilutes an individual’s risk of predation, and allows them to reduce their own vigilance while the vigilance of the group is maintained. Alarm signals may be used to alert the group to the presence of predators. Groups of some species have at least one individual on sentry duty who looks out for predators on a perch while the rest of the group forages.
Usage examples of "vigilance".
In spite of the number and vigilance of the blockading fleet, several hundred blockade-runners had succeeded in making their way into Cape Fear River, though several hundred also had been captured, not to mention a very considerable number that had been run ashore or burned when escape became hopeless.
Each officer having soldiers under him traverses at intervals during the night every street under his jurisdiction, and these armed followers, whether to intimidate criminals or to show their vigilance, are in the habit of discharging their old-fashioned matchlocks and gingalls as they patrol.
He watched with unflagging vigilance, and it was only when the hexapod expanded its wings as if for flight that he prepared to imprison it in the hollow of his hand.
The most highly visible was probably the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, which was headed by George Akin Lusk, a builder who specialized in the restoration of music halls.
Then Hughes summoned him and showed him a crudely-scrawled message that had been sent to George Lusk, the head of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee.
Pyra Quadde nor Cyrus Ogg relaxed their vigilance, or let the muzzles of their blasters wander away from the whaleboat.
He reduced all the places on the Oglio, and continued in the field during the whole winter, exhibiting repeated marks of the most invincible courage, indefatigable vigilance, and extensive capacity in the art of war.
Although he and Orace never relaxed their vigilance, taking it in turns to sleep and keep watch, they were left in peace.
Ashby, pressed by a superior British force, had been compelled to yield before it, and this intelligence left our partisan no moment of respite after quelling the commotions on the Pedee, before he was required to return and cover the country which had so long been indebted to his vigilance for protection.
Luckily for him, his father was absent at a Vigilance Committee called to take cognizance of the late sluice robberies, and although this temporarily concealed his offense of truancy, the news of the Vigilance meeting determined him to keep his lips sealed.
The same fear that had made the others so ungallant, had also influenced him not only to a similar act of ungallantry, but to one of exemplary self-denial, in resigning his claim to her as a case illustrative of his constabulary vigilance.
Grand Transcendence was the time of greatest weakness, of greatest peace, of least vigilance, which an already weak, peaceful, and unvigilant society enjoyed.
Any bedin who put herself in the wrong position in relation to their vigilance was struck aside, quickly and harshly, not allowed a single instant in which to put the men at a disadvantage.
In this important fortress, the vigilance of Chosroes had deposited a magazine of offensive and defensive arms, sufficient for five times the number, not only of the garrison, but of the besiegers themselves.
Provisions ran low upon the third day of our stay in Bridgewater, which was due to our having exhausted that part of the country before, and also to the vigilance of the Royal Horse, who scoured the district round and cut off our supplies.