Morse

(môrs)

adjective

designating or of a code, or alphabet, consisting of a system of dots and dashes, or short and long sounds or flashes, used to represent letters, numerals, etc. in telegraphy, signaling, and the like: the international (or continental) code was adapted from the original

Origin: after Samuel F(inley) B(reese) Morse

noun

the Morse code

Morse, Samuel F(inley) B(reese) 1791-1872; U.S. artist & inventor of the telegraph

See Morse in American Heritage Dictionary 4

American painter and inventor. A portraitist whose subjects included Lafayette, he refined (1838) and patented (1854) the telegraph and developed the telegraphic code that bears his name.

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