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Morse code. Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. [3] [4] Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the early developers of the system adopted for electrical telegraphy .
Morse code abbreviations are used to speed up Morse communications by foreshortening textual words and phrases. Morse abbreviations are short forms, representing normal textual words and phrases formed from some (fewer) characters taken from the word or phrase being abbreviated. Many are typical English abbreviations, or short acronyms for ...
In Morse code, it is known as a "commat", consisting of the Morse code for the "A" and "C" which run together as one character: . The symbol was added in 2004 for use with email addresses, [55] the only official change to Morse code since World War I. In Nepali, the symbol is called "at the rate." Commonly, people will give their email ...
Morse code mnemonics are systems to represent the sound of Morse characters in a way intended to be easy to remember. Since every one of these mnemonics requires a two-step mental translation between sound and character, none of these systems are useful for using manual Morse at practical speeds. Amateur radio clubs can provide resources to ...
Many star names are, in origin, descriptive of the part in the constellation they are found in; thus Phecda, a corruption of Arabic فخذ الدب ( fakhdh ad-dubb, 'thigh of the bear'). Only a handful of the brightest stars have individual proper names not depending on their asterism; so Sirius ('the scorcher'), Antares ('rival of Ares ', i.e ...
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The Russian alphabet ( ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, [ a] or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, [ b] more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language. It comes from the Cyrillic script, which was devised in the 9th century for the first Slavic literary language, Old Slavonic.
Playing cards deck. [edit] Unicode has code points for the 52 cards of the standard French deck plus the Knight(Ace, 2-10, Jack, Knight, Queen, and King for each suit), two for black and white (or red) jokers and a back of a card, in block Playing Cards(U+1F0A0–1F0FF). Also, a specific red joker and twenty-two generic trump cards are added.