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Definition of Semaphore
1. Noun. An apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms.
2. Verb. Send signals by or as if by semaphore.
3. Verb. Convey by semaphore, of information.
Definition of Semaphore
1. n. A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.
Definition of Semaphore
1. Noun. Any visual signaling system with flags, lights, or mechanically moving arms. ¹
2. Noun. A visual system for transmitting information by means of two flags that are held one in each hand, using an alphabetic and numeric code based on the position of the signaler’s arms. ¹
3. Noun. (computing) A bit, token, fragment of code, or some other mechanism which is used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process at a time, or to synchronize and coordinate events in different processes. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive intransitive) To signal using (or as if using) a semaphore. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Semaphore
1. [v -PHORED, -PHORING, -PHORES]
Medical Definition of Semaphore
1. A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc. Origin: Gr. A seign + to bear: cf. F. Semaphore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Semaphore
Literary usage of Semaphore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient and Modern Engineering and the Isthmian Canal by William Hubert Burr (1902)
"Indications of the semaphore.—It is evident that a semaphore affords facilities of
... The horizontal position is the most striking for the semaphore arm, ..."
2. Ancient and Modern Engineering and the Isthmian Canal by William Hubert Burr (1902)
"Indications of the semaphore.—It is evident that a semaphore affords facilities of
... The horizontal position is the most striking for the semaphore arm, ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"The objection urged against the semaphore on the ground of the longer time taken
to move the arms, because they describe arcs of larger circles than the ..."
4. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1903)
"The short-distance British semaphore is fast, for the reason that the parts ...
'Referring to the British hand-semaphore, and to the discussion as to its ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The plan then introduced was that known as the Chappe semaphore system of ...
This semaphore resembled the semaphore so common on all railways to-day, ..."
6. Electrical Engineer (1889)
"The Repeater is furnished with a miniature semaphore-arm to indicate the movements
of the real signal, and also contains a switch and drop indicator to ..."
7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The plan then introduced was that known as the Chappe semaphore system of ...
This semaphore resembled the semaphore so common on all railways to-day, ..."
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