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Alertness Alertness is the state of active attention by high sensory awareness such as being watchful and prompt to meet danger or emergency, or being quick to perceive and act. It is related for psychology . A lack of alertness is a symptom of a ...
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Vigilance Vigilance may refer to: * Alertness * Vigilance, a creature ability in the ''Magic: The Gathering'' collectible card game * ''Vigilance'' (album), by Threat Signal * Vigilance (behavioural ecology), the watchfulness of prey for nearby predator ...
, a creature ability in the ''Magic: The Gathering'' collectible card game * ''Vigilance'' (album), by Threat Signal *
Vigilance (behavioural ecology) 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 th ...
, the watchfulness of prey for nearby predators *
Vigilance (psychology) 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 ...
, the ability to maintain attention and alertness over prolonged periods of time * ''Vigilance'' (video game), a 1998 PC game by SegaSoft *
Vigilance committee A vigilance committee was a group formed of private citizens to administer law and order or exercise power through violence in places where they considered governmental structures or actions inadequate. A form of vigilantism and often a more stru ...
, a group of private citizens formed to administer law *
Vigilance committee (trade union) A vigilance committee is an unofficial grouping within a trade union, formed for the purpose of putting pressure on that union's leadership to pursue alternative policies or to pursue existing policies with increased vigour. Vigilance committees a ...
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Vigilance control A dead man's switch (see alternative names) is a switch that is designed to be activated or deactivated if the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death, loss of consciousness, or being bodily removed from control. Originally a ...
, on railways


Airship

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ZPG-3W The N-Class, or as popularly known, the "Nan ship", was a line of non-rigid airships built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio for the US Navy. This line of airships was developed through many versions and assigned various designat ...
''Vigilance'', largest US Navy non-rigid airship ever built


Ship

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USS Vigilance (AM-324) USS ''Vigilance'' (AM-324) was an acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing. ''Vigilance'' was originally laid down for the ''Royal Navy'' under t ...
, a US Navy minesweeper *
Vigilance (fireboat) ''Vigilance'' is a fireboat operated by Long Beach, California. It is the second of two large fireboats Long Beach commissioned and the largest on North America's West Coast. ''Vigilance'' and ''Protector'' were designed by Robert Allan Limited, a ...
, a fireboat operated by the city of Long Beach, California *
BNS Vigilance HMS ''Montford'' was one of 23 boats of the of patrol boats built for the Royal Navy in the 1950s. Their names were all chosen from villages ending in ''-ford''. This boat was named after Montford, Shropshire. She was launched on 10 October 19 ...
, a patrol boat of the Biafran navy


See also

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Hypervigilance Hypervigilance (more accurately understood as Hyper-awareness) is a condition in which the nervous system is filtering sensory information and the individual is in an enhanced state of sensory sensitivity or sensory domination. The name itself is ...
* Vigilant (disambiguation) * Vigilante (disambiguation) * * {{disambiguation