nonalert

comparative more nonalert · superlative most nonalert

1. Not alert; inattentive or relaxed.

   In contrast, nonalert individuals will attempt to change the information.

   2006, Timothy G. Habbershon, Maria Minniti, Mark P. Rice ·, Entrepreneurship, page 52

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   These results also include an assumption that the alert or at-sea rates for bombers, mobile ICBMs, and submarines are set initially at 100 percent and then decreased proportionally as the nonalert rate is increased.

   2000, Stephen J. Cimbala, Deterrence and Nuclear Proliferation in the Twenty-First Century, page 82

   The duration of nonalert waking states, defined as those times when the baby's eyes are open but have a vacant look, was inversely correlated with the overall stability of State (Becker & Thoman, 1983).

   2001, Holly Alliger Ruff, Mary Klevjord Rothbart, Attention in Early Development, page 224