- incident room
- 'incident .roomn BrEa room in a police station or other place where police work on solving a particular serious crime
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incident room
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incident room — incident centre, incident office or incident room noun A temporary establishment set up near the scene of a crime, disaster or unrest, etc by the police or army in order to collect information and monitor the situation • • • Main Entry: ↑incident … Useful english dictionary
incident room — incident rooms N COUNT: usu sing An incident room is a room used by the police while they are dealing with a major crime or accident. [BRIT] Police have set up an incident room as they begin to investigate this morning s fire … English dictionary
incident room — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms incident room : singular incident room plural incident rooms British a room in a police station used for collecting information about a particular crime or other incident … English dictionary
incident room — /ˈɪnsədənt rum/ (say insuhduhnt roohm) noun 1. a room in which all the evidence relating to a murder or other serious crime investigation is collated and analysed. 2. a centre where the response to a major accident or disaster is organised and… …
incident — incident, incidental adjectives. Incident has been almost entirely replaced as an adjective by incidental, so that a sentence such as Those in the highest station have their incident cares and troubles now sounds decidedly dated. This freeing of… … Modern English usage
incident centre — incident centre, incident office or incident room noun A temporary establishment set up near the scene of a crime, disaster or unrest, etc by the police or army in order to collect information and monitor the situation • • • Main Entry: ↑incident … Useful english dictionary
incident office — incident centre, incident office or incident room noun A temporary establishment set up near the scene of a crime, disaster or unrest, etc by the police or army in order to collect information and monitor the situation • • • Main Entry: ↑incident … Useful english dictionary
incident — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ major, serious ▪ little, minor, small, trivial (esp. BrE) ▪ further ▪ After … Collocations dictionary
room — noun 1 in a house/building ADJECTIVE ▪ big, cavernous, enormous, high, high ceilinged, huge, large, spacious, vast ▪ … Collocations dictionary
Room acoustics — describes how sound behaves in an enclosed space.The way that sound behaves in a room can be broken up into roughly four different frequency zones: *The first zone is below the frequency that has a wavelength of twice the longest length of the… … Wikipedia
