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warning signal

n. an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger [syn: alarm, alert, alarum]

Usage examples of "warning signal".

But before Hunter was able to wrestle the big plane back down to two hundred feet, the B-l's radar warning signal began to howl both in the sub's command center and in the airplane cockpit.

He was just reaching for another pill when a light blinked from the people up on the flight deck- there was nothing much to do while in orbit and a warning signal was a rarity.

Shuddering under extreme deceleration, the thinking-machine fleet would arrive not long after the warning signal reached the capital world.