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The term is borrowed from Italian vigilante, which means 'sentinel' or 'watcher', from Latin vigilāns.According to political scientist Regina Bateson, vigilantism is "the extralegal prevention, investigation, or punishment of offenses."
Vigilantism in the United States of America is defined as acts which violate societal limits which are intended to defend and protect citizens from some form of attack or some form of harm.
Vigilance committee in Boston in 1851, after Thomas Sims's arrest. Abolitionists met at Faneuil Hall in the 1830s and formed the Committee of Vigilance and Safety to "take all measures that they shall deem expedient to protect the colored people of this city in the enjoyment of their lives and liberties."
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.
always vigilant: Motto of several institutions including the Civil Air Patrol of the United States Air Force, the city of San Diego, California semper vigilo: always vigilant: Motto of the Scottish Police Forces, Scotland Senatus Populusque Romanus (SPQR) The Senate and the People of Rome: The official name of the Roman Republic.
The term internet vigilantism describes punitive public denunciations, aimed at swaying public opinion in order to “take justice into one's own hands” by engaging in forms of targeted surveillance, unwanted attention, negative publicity, repression, coercion or dissuasion.
Vigilant, a 1999 novel by James Alan Gardner; The Vigilant, a 1960s English-language newspaper published in Khartoum, Sudan; Vigilant behavior, a personality trait; Grob Vigilant, a glider manufactured by Grob Aerospace of Mindelheim Mattsies of Germany
A crane vigilant. A crane standing on one leg (usually with a stone held in the other foot) may be called vigilant or in its vigilance (e.g. Waverley Borough Council's "crane in its vigilance" [22]). A stone is usually shown held in the claw of the raised leg. This is as per the bestiary myth that cranes stayed awake by doing so.