Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A signal operated from an observatory to indicate the time of day to persons at distant points.
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- noun Alternative form of
time signal .
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Examples
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How the Lithians modulated them to carry information-not only messages, but the amazing navigational grid, the planet-wide time-signal system, and much more-was something as remote from Ruiz%Sanchez 'understanding as affine theory, although Cleaver said it was all perfectly simple once you understood it.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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How the Lithians modulated them to carry information-not only messages, but the amazing navigational grid, the planet-wide time-signal system, and much more-was something as remote from Ruiz%Sanchez 'understanding as affine theory, although Cleaver said it was all perfectly simple once you understood it.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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At the end of that four minutes it would be time for station identification and a time-signal, and the divers eight-second flashes before other programs came on the air.
Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935
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