TELEGRAPHIC SIGNAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telegraphic signal mean? 

• TELEGRAPHIC SIGNAL (noun)
  The noun TELEGRAPHIC SIGNAL has 1 sense:

1. a signal transmitted by telegraphy

  Familiarity information: TELEGRAPHIC SIGNAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TELEGRAPHIC SIGNAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A signal transmitted by telegraphy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

radiotelegraphic signal; telegraphic signal

Hypernyms ("telegraphic signal" is a kind of...):

sign; signal; signaling (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "telegraphic signal"):

dit; dot (the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code)

dah; dash (the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code)