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Telegraph code

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telegraphnoun(chiefly historical) The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages (telegrams) using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.
morse codenoun(telecommunications) A character code represented by dots and dashes (or short and long pulses), originally used to send messages by telegraph, later by flashes of light or by radio.
baudot codenounAn early character encoding used in telegraphy, representing each letter in the alphabet by five bits (binary digits).
telegraphemenoun(dated, rare) A telegram.
teletypenoun(historical) A telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance.
teleg.nounAbbreviation of telegraph. [(uncommon) Synonym of telegraphy, any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.]
telecodenoun(historical) A numerical encoding of a Tibetan word or phrase, used in CIA espionage.
telegraphesenounThe terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this.
telegramesenounThe terse, abbreviated writing style used in telegrams.
telotypenoun(obsolete) Synonym of teletype: a telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols; the telegrams produced by this device.
wordnoun(semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
teletypewriternounSynonym of teletype (“telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols”).
tel.noun(law) Abbreviation of telephone. [(countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).]
encodingnounA conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
teletapenoun(historical) A message of up to 200 words transmitted by telegraph at the post office.
line codenounA code chosen for use within a communications system for transmission purposes.
telegraphonenoun(historical) An early device for recording sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver or similar.
characternoun(countable) A being involved in the action of a story; a persona.
morsenoun(transitive) To transmit by Morse code.
edelcrantz systemnoun(historical) A system of telegraphy consisting of a set of ten shutters arranged in columns representing binary-coded octal digits.

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