telegraph
The electrical device gradually developed in the early 19th century to transmit messages () using Morse code; the entire system used to transmit its messages including overhead lines and transoceanic cables.
Example
“The first message transmitted by telegraph in the United States was WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT.”
Other meanings
A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.
any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code.
A kind of
- apparatus
Kinds of telegraph
- optical telegraph
Related words
- autotelegraph
- pretelegraph
- Torygraph
- bush telegraph
- random telegraph noise
- telegraph blue
- wireless telegraph
- drum telegraph
- electric telegraph
- electrotelegraph
- engine order telegraph
- jungle telegraph
Word history
From French "télégraphe".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “telegraph” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.