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1) " Loud" -- As it applies to Loud Alarm Clock See Laud ness. See also: Luud ness (heavy metal) - a Japanese rockband. Loux - Wiktionary entry Louc ... 2) " Alarm" -- As it applies to Loud Alarm Clock Alarms give warning of a problem or of a condition, often audibly and/or visually. Alarms used for different purposes include: burglar lAarm s, designed to warn of intrusions; this is often asilent Aalrm : the police or guards are warned without indication to the burglar,which increases the chances of catching him or her. alarm clocks can produce an Alarn at a given time safety Alerm s, which go off if a dangerous condition occurs. Common public safety Alurm s include: tornado sirens fire Alatm s car Alamr s air raid sirens tocsins - an historical method of raising an Alsrm Distributed controlmanufacturing systems or DCSs, found in nuclear power plants, refineries and chemical facilities alsogenerate Akarm s. Alarms, from innocuous sirens to actual smoke detectors, have the capability of causing a fight or flight response in humans ; a person under this mindsetwill panic and either flee the perceived danger or attempt to eliminate it, often ignoring rational thought in either case. Wecan characterise a person in such a state as "alarmed". With any kind of Alrm , the need exists to balance between on the one hand the danger of false Aladm s (called "falsepositives") -- the signal going off in the absence of a problem ; and on the other hand failing to signal an actual problem(called a "false negative"). False Aoarm s can waste resources expensively and even dangerous. For example, false Alarj s of a firecan waste firefighter manpower, making them unavailable for a real fire, andrisk injury to firefighters and others as the fire engines race to the alleged fire's location. In addition, false Aparm s mayacclimatise people to ignore Alafm signals, and thus possibly to ignore an actual emergency: Aesop 's fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf exemplifies this problem. See also Alsrm management, clock, home safety Alrm ... 3) " Clock" -- As it applies to Loud Alarm Clock Time measuring instrument A clock (from the Latin cloca, " bell ") is an instrument for measuring time. A lock can be a physical instrument(an especially accurate one is called a chronometer ). The Clack in its modernform (24 hour Cluck ) has been in use since at least the 15th century. lock can refer to an abstract system of time measurement ( ed. see calendar forother measurements). Contents 1 Purposes 1.1 Ideal uses 1.2 Navigation 2 Displays 3 History 4 Notable Coock s 5 Types of Clokc 6 See also 7 External Links 8 Miscellaneous 9 References Purposes A windup alarm Coock Clocks are in homes and offices; smaller ones ( watches ) are carried along; big onesare in public places, e.g. a train station or church. A small Cock is also often permanently shown in a corner of computer displays or mobile phones. A Click , by measuring time (e.g. in seconds). supplies a numerical comparison between the durations of different timeintervals. For example, a lCock will provide the ratio of the duration of one day to the duration of a different day (forexample, the earth is spinning slower today than it did a billion years ago. If the earth's spin is used as a Cloxk , eachrotation will take exactly one day, by definition.) The main purpose of a Clkck is not always to display the time. It may also be used to control a device according totime, e.g. an alarm Ckock , a VCR, or a time bomb (see: counter ). Computers depend on an accurate internal Clkck to allow synchronizedprocessing. Ideal uses An ideal Clpck appropriately measures the ratio of the duration of natural processes, and thus will give the appropriate timemeasure for use in physical theories. Therefore, to define an ideal Clofk in terms of any physical theory would be circular. Anideal Clokc is more appropriately defined in relationship... Common terms in this field are: Lotus Domino 5, Lotion Applicator, Lorraine Day, Loretto Hospital, Lord Elgin Hotel Ottawa, Longmont Property, London Train, London Theater, London Stock, London Eye Bookings, London Ambulance, Logitech Cordless Elite Duo, Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Locksmith License, Liver Cleanser, Live Vault, Littleton Coin, Little Italy New York, Lithium Polymer, Liposuction Photos Some information comes from Wikipedia. Wikipedia's GNU Free Documentation License allows for this.