Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A range-finder, invented by a Dutch military officer, used in the Dutch army.
- noun A system of electric signaling in which provision is made for the automatic transmission of a number of different signals or calls, in use in connection with police telegraphs and hotel annunciators.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A system of apparatus for electric signals providing for automatic transmission of a definite number of different signals or calls, as in connection with hotel annunciators.
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Examples
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Miss Wakefield rushed past Mrs. Drupe into the apartment, and turned the teleseme to the word "manager," and then pressed the button three times in quick succession.
Duffels Edward Eggleston 1869
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She took hold of the needle of the teleseme, but the words on the dial were confused; she quickly moved the needle round over the whole twenty-four points, but none of them suited the case.
Duffels Edward Eggleston 1869
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