a telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by samuel f.b.morse, the inventor of morse's telegraph. the letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .- (a), - . . . (b), -.. (d), . (e), .. (o), . . . (r), -- (t), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them.