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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or transmitted by telegraph.
  • adjective Brief or concise.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made by a telegraph: used in telegraphing: as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art.
  • Communicated or transmitted by a telegraph: as, telegraphic intelligence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph
  • adjective having only the essential information; brief; concise; terse; -- of communications, by analogy with the style of telegrams, which are short to avoid unnecessary expense.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, or relating to the telegraph
  • adjective brief or concise, especially resembling a telegram with clipped syntax

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having the style of a telegram with many short words left out
  • adjective of or relating to or transmitted by telegraph

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