English dictionary · noun

telegraphy

Any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a code, especially by means of electrified wires or radio waves using Morse code.

Meaning and definitions

1. Any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a code, especially by means of electrified wires or radio waves using Morse code.
2. The science and techniques used to enact this process.
3. The devices and networks used to enact this process.

Connected roots

• tele-

  far, distant

• graph-

  writing, drawing

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• photography

  The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.

• telephone

  a device that transmits speech over distances by converting sound to signals

• photograph

  a picture made using a camera

• telegraph

  a system for transmitting messages over distance by signals along a wire

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  the study of the physical features of the earth

• biography

  an account of a person's life written by someone else

• bibliography

  a list of the books referred to in a scholarly work

• telescope

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• telegram

  A message transmitted by telegraph.

• choreography

  The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.

• autograph

  a signature, especially that of a celebrity

• telecommunication

  The science and technology of the communication of messages over a distance using electric, electronic or electromagnetic impulses.

• hologram

  A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.

• telecast

  To broadcast by television.

• holographic

  In the form of a hologram or holograph.

• monogram

  A sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry.

• typography

  The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.

• telemetry

  the automatic measurement and transmission of data from remote sources

• chromatography

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• cryptography

  The discipline that embodies the principles, means, and methods for transforming data to hide its semantic content, prevent unauthorized use, or detect modifications, while also ensuring information security through confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation.

• telepathy

  The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.

• demography

  The study of the characteristics of human populations, especially with regards to their makeup and fluctuations and the social causes behind these.

• polygraph

  A device which measures and records several physiological variables such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and skin conductivity while a series of questions is being posed to a subject, in an attempt to detect deception.

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