telegraphy

[tuh-leg-ruh-fee]

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noun

the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs.

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Origin of telegraphy

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

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The newspaper column as we kno it is an artifact of telegraphy.
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It is all telegraphy, but it all required an agreed and very limited code, and comparative nearness.
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My grandfather has taught me a lot about telegraphy, he admitted.
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He, like the first, was a specialist in signalling and telegraphy.
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This telegraphy is so imperceptible that it is difficult to describe it, and altogether impossible to detect it.
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There would be no world-wide system of telegraphy if there was no need of world-wide intercommunication.
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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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telegraphy

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telegraphy

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