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In military telephone systems, a distinctive tone that is used to indicate to connected users, i.e. , subscribers, that their call has been preempted by a call of higher precedence. Note: An example of preemption tone is a distinctive, steady, high-pitch tone transmitted for three seconds or until the preempted user hangs up. [From Weik '89]