💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Telegraph code"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 codenoun | An 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.noun | Abbreviation 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. |
| telegraphesenoun | The terse, abbreviated writing style used in or as used in telegraph messages; speech that resembles this. |
| telegramesenoun | The 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.) |
| teletypewriternoun | Synonym 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).] |
| encodingnoun | A 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 codenoun | A 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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