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[1] The definition has three components: Extralegal: Vigilantism is done outside of the law (not necessarily in violation of the law) Prevention, investigation, or punishment: Vigilantism requires specific actions, not just attitudes or beliefs; Offense: Vigilantism is a response to a perceived crime or violation of an authoritative norm
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...
Vigilantism in the United States of America is defined as acts which violate societal limits which are intended to defend and protect the prevailing distribution of values and resources from some form of attack or some form of harm.
Vigilance decrement is defined as "deterioration in the ability to remain vigilant for critical signals with time, as indicated by a decline in the rate of the correct detection of signals". [4] Vigilance decrement is most commonly associated with monitoring to detect a weak target signal.
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
HMC Vigilant, a British customs cutter of HM Customs and Excise; HMRC Vigilant, two ships and a number of cutters of the British HM Customs and Excise; HMS Vigilant, a number of ships of the British Royal Navy; HSV Vigilant (JHSV-2), a ship of the United States Navy-led joint high-speed vessel program, later renamed USNS Choctaw County (T-EPF-2)
A vigilance committee is a group of private citizens who take it upon themselves to administer law and order or exercise power in places where they consider the governmental structures or actions inadequate. [1]