telegraphy

[tuh-leg-ruh-fee]

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noun

the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.

Origin of telegraphy

First recorded in 1785–95; tele-¹ + -graphy

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Related Words for telegraphy

transmission, wireless, receiver, Walkman, telegraphy, radiotelegraphy, telephony, radiotelegraph, Marconi, radiotelephone, CB, radionics, shortwave

Examples from the Web for telegraphy

Contemporary Examples of telegraphy

The newspaper column as we kno it is an artifact of telegraphy.
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David Frum
March 21, 2013

Historical Examples of telegraphy

A woodpecker's telegraphy broke the quiet like a volley of pistol shots.
The Gentleman From Indiana
Booth Tarkington
And in 1869 Lowestoft was not much more than a village, and telegraphy was in its infancy.
Edward FitzGerald and "Posh"
James Blyth
In the age of telegraphy, that disaster would have been averted.
William Pitt and the Great War
John Holland Rose
Locomotives and telegraphy are mere snails compared to thought.
The Iron Horse
R.M. Ballantyne
But had the last word in telegraphy been spoken, when it was invented?
Historic Oddities
Sabine Baring-Gould

British Dictionary definitions for telegraphy

telegraphy

noun

a system of telecommunications involving any process providing reproduction at a distance of written, printed, or pictorial matterSee also facsimile (def. 2)

the skill or process of operating a telegraph

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