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UK
/tˌɛlɪɡɹˈæfɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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having the style of a telegram with many short words left out
the strange telegraphic speech of some aphasics
telegraphic economy of words -
of or relating to or transmitted by telegraph
a telegraphic machine
telegraphic news reports
How To Use telegraphic In A Sentence
- By the late 19th century, telegraphic signals sent over transoceanic cables enabled clocks to be synchronized worldwide with sufficient accuracy that one had to correct for the delay due to the transmission of the telegraphic signal.
- The spot rate is also known as the basic rate or telegraphic transfer rate.
- Finally, a telegraphic or telex message is not recorded, except by the sending and recipient banks.
- From 1872 onwards he contributed student articles to the Telegraphic Journal, which later became the Electrical Review.
- He was always tongue-tied and telegraphic; in fact, he stammered; but whether it was a verbal or a moral stammer Shevek had never decided. THE DISPOSSESSED
- So if you tell the story of time coordination as a pure history of ideas then Poincare's references to telegraphy and telegraphic longitude remain…
- In the end we resorted to telegraphic, monosyllabic emails when we absolutely had to communicate with each other.
- Also, the older children speak proficient English instead of the telegraphic dialect the Shimerdas use in the early chapters.
- We will instruct our banker to amend the credit telegraphically.
- The increasing simplification traceable from the Egyptian epigraphic hieroglyphs to the Greek and Roman alphabets and the anticipation of modern stenography and telegraphic code in the cuneiform inscriptions (Semitic) and the virgular quinquecostate ogham writing (Celtic). Ulysses