alertable

Adjective

1. Capable of receiving and responding to notifications from other threads of execution.
   • Since your thread is in an alertable state, as soon as an APC entry appears, the system wakes your thread and empties the queue (by calling the callback routines). - 2000, Jeffrey Richter, Jason D. Clark, Programming...
   • If you know the HANDLE of a thread you wish to signal, and that thread has performed an alertable wait, then queueing an APC is often significantly quicker than waking the target thread by using kernel objects (as we...
   • Every thread has a queue of APCs attached to it, and these are processed when the thread is in an alertable state, such as when they call functions like WaitForSingleObjectEx, WaitForMultipleObjectsEx, and Sleep. -...
2. Requiring the partner of the person making a bid to alert the opponents that the bid's meaning involves a partnership understanding that is not readily understood.
   • Bids marked in red on the convention card must be alerted. Cue-bids of an opponent's suit, however, are not alertable. - 1991, Albert Hodges Morehead, Edmond Hoyle, The New Complete Hoyle, page 165:
   • ln general, natural bids are not Alertable. - 1994, Audrey Grant, The Spade Series: An Introduction to Duplicate Bridge, page 165:
   • To alert those calls you may use the alert card in the bidding box or simply say "alert" when partner makes an alertable call. - 2009, Jean J. Reaves, Conventional Wisdom Plus: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Bridge...
3. Able to respond constructively to being alerted.
   • The whole party, with the concentration of legal ammunition, the relaxed but alertable force of the deputies, weighed heavily against the slight presence of Mr. Grimes sitting beyond the pale, on the silent side of the...
   • Those members of our society who are alertable now know that there are serious global problems of environmental deterioration and resource depletion. - 1973, Equilibrium - Volume 1, page 35:
   • To put it bluntly, many of those who are alertable to the nonsensical environmental assumptions of economic theory are alerted by now, and major efforts to inform the remaining economists about the facts of life (Daily...