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Morse

UK/mɔːs/ US/ˈmɔrs/ fairly common

noun

1.

a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals)

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Origin

Uncertain, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Samic *moršë. Compare Russian морж (morž, “walrus”), Sami morša, Finnish mursu (all attested later), and possibly the second element of translingual Rosmarus.

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