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The ruler that measures how loud the alarm should scream.
means The degree of seriousness, harshness, or harm of something — from a bug to a punishment to a storm.
from From Latin severitas, gravity or sternness, rooted in severus, the strict unsmiling judge who never gave bonus points.
Bug triageSev1 wakes engineers; sev4 waits politely.
Not urgencySeverity is how bad, urgency is how soon.
Medical scalesTriage colors rank patients by survivable severity.