Usually means: Signaling system using visual indicators.
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  1. semaphore: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. semaphore: Merriam-Webster
  3. semaphore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. semaphore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. semaphore: Collins English Dictionary
  6. semaphore: Vocabulary.com
  7. Semaphore, semaphore: Wordnik
  8. semaphore: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Semaphore (marine alphabet Semaphore+++(marine+++alphabet+++1+++of+++3) of 3), Semaphore (marine alphabet 2 of 3), Semaphore (marine alphabet 3 of 3), Semaphore: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. semaphore: Wiktionary
  11. semaphore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. semaphore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. semaphore: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. semaphore: Dictionary.com
  15. semaphore: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. Semaphore (album), Semaphore (computer science), Semaphore (disambiguation), Semaphore (programming), Semaphore (software), Semaphore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Semaphore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. semaphore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. semaphore: Rhymezone
  20. Semaphore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. semaphore: FreeDictionary.org
  22. semaphore: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. semaphore: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Semaphore (communication), Semaphore (communications), Semaphore (comunication), semaphore: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. semaphore: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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  4. Semaphore (communication), Semaphore (communications), Semaphore (comunication), semaphore: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See semaphored as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any equipment used for visual signalling by means of flags, lights, or mechanically moving arms, which are used to represent letters of the alphabet, or words.
noun:  A visual system for transmitting information using the above equipment; especially, by means of two flags held one in each hand, using an alphabetic and numeric code based on the position of the signaller's arms; flag semaphore.
noun:  (programming) A bit, token, fragment of code, or some other mechanism which is used to restrict access to a shared function or device to a single process at a time, or to synchronize and coordinate events in different processes.
verb:  (ambitransitive, figurative) To signal using, or as if using, a semaphore, with the implication that it is done nonverbally.

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