A telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals).

synonyms: international Morse code, Morse code.

Dutch: morse, morsealfabet, morsecode, morseschrift
Polish: mors, alfabet Morse'a

United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872).

synonyms: Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Samuel Morse.