Word Finder - signal

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A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.

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Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection.

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A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.

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An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.

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(of a radio, TV, telephone, internet, etc.) An electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time, that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.

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My mobile phone can't get a signal in the railway station.

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An action, change or process done to convey information and thus reduce uncertainty.

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A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.

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Useful information, as opposed to noise.

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A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.

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A signalling interaction between cells

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To indicate; to convey or communicate by a signal.

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To communicate with (a person or system) by a signal.

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Seeing the flames, he ran to the control room and signalled headquarters.

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Standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement.

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a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence

Place your thumb on the pad, and it'll signal me.

His thrashing was the signal he was in the throes of dream.

Not sure we can get a signal on the GPS tags Jessi put on her cousin.

Her cell phone had no signal, her head throbbed, and the coffee pot was empty.

As soon as the signal to walk flashed, she put some distance between her and the crazy woman.

Footsteps on the stairs were the Deans' signal to prepare for breakfast.

Apparently that was a signal that he had found her.

But what is best of all," he went on, his excitement subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, "is that the sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes stayed his hand.

Cursing, he went to the wall overlooking the meadow and spotted Vara atop his horse, awaiting his signal at the edge of the forest.

Against the attendant abuses the Augustinian monk Martin Luther posted (31st October 1517) on the church door at Wittenberg his famous ninety-five theses, which were the signal for widespread revolt against the church.

War was declared in May 1652 after a fight between Blake and Tromp off Dover, and was continued with signal victories and defeats on both sides till 1654.

In its fourth year its training as a beast of burden begins, when it is taught to kneel and to rise at a given signal, and is gradually accustomed to bear increasing loads.

But Francis of Lorraine, elected emperor in that year, sent an army to the kings support, which in 1746 obtained a signal victory over the Bourbons at Piacenza.

Calderai, who may be compared to the Black Hundreds of modern Russia, the revolutionary spirit continued to grow, but it was not at first anti-dynastic. The granting of the Spanish constitution of 1820 proved the signal for the beginning of the Italian.

Public filings by JAMDAT and SEVEN Networks are a signal that the market for wireless chemical raw material applications is exiting infancy.

The researchers targeted the protein to the secretory pathway by adding a so-called signal sequence to the protein.

But when I stood on the shore they at once rose up with a great flapping of wings at the signal of their commander, and when they had got into rank circled about over my head, twenty-nine of them, and then steered straight to Canada, with a regular honk from the leader at intervals, trusting to break their fast in muddier pools.

In times of peace the carroccio was in the keeping of some great family which had distinguished itself by signal services to the republic.

If the positive is called the signalling current, the line will be charged positively each time a signal is sent; but as soon as the signal is completed a negative charge is communicated FIG.

After a very short interval of time, the length of which depends on the inductive retardation of the cable, the condensers corresponding to C 1 and C3 at the other end begin to be charged from the cable, and since the charge of C3 passes through the receiving instrument I or G the signal is recorded.

Each of the subscribers controls a signal at A, and when either or both of the telephones are replaced, the action is indicated by the lamps there.

The record operator then removes her speaking apparatus from the circuit, and the local operator, receiving a disconnect signal, severs the connexion at the local exchange.

Here, on the 20th of April 1809, Napoleon gained a signal victory over the Austrians under the Archduke Louis and General Hiller.

Bocskay survived this signal and unprecedented triumph only a few months.

This was to be the signal for the outbreak of revolution.

He therefore hoisted the signal of recall.

Laynez at the council of Trent has given one signal instance of its working, but its operations were by no means confined to the abstract field of dogma.

His trial was the signal for riot.

The antibodies signal the body to produce histamine, which causes the airways to inflame.

Many signal proteins bind via lipid anchors and/or pleckstrin homology domains to the cytosolic surface of the plasma membrane.

Spring flowers including hyacinths made of painted plaster signal re-birth, resurrection and spring.

This team is investigating the ' signal molecule ' which produces the scarring around the brain thought to be responsible for causing hydrocephalus.

This causes cells to store or release calcium which, for example, is the main signal to secrete insulin.

Indeed a " sensitive " tuner might be suffer overload from the strong signal produced by a large dish.

Pirate stations are particularly partial to the RSL frequencies because of the ease with which they can drown out their signal.

These either act directly, by binding to promoter regions, or indirectly, through signal transduction pathways.

Unintentional battery drain is avoided through use of automatic Phantom power detection and automatic power shut-off on disconnection of the input signal.

Why invest a sizable amount of money on an after-market solution when you can build a homemade cell phone signal booster?

It was then proposed to arrange a detector so that it was affected by the algebraic sum of the two oscillations, and by swivelling round the double receiving antennae to locate the direction of the sending station by finding out when the detector gave the best signal.

The telephone was switched out of circuit when not in use and the bell put in its place, a key being used for throwing the battery into circuit to make the signal.

But it was on the banks of the Rhine that the Napoleonic system received its most signal developments.

Christ church (1723) is the oldest church of the city; in its tower the signal lanterns were displayed for Paul Revere on the night of the 18th of April 1775.

Males of the Argyopidae hang on the outskirt s of the webs of the females and signal their presence to her by jerking the radial threads in a peculiar manner.

It is believed that the males of these species signal to their females by means of the sound these organs emit.

In 1221 Hermann of Salza, the master of the Teutonic order, along with the duke of Bavaria, appeared in the camp before Damietta; and as it seemed useless to wait any longer for Frederick II., 4 the cardinal, in spite of the opposition of King John, gave the signal for the march on Cairo.

Sand bars keep filling up the mouths of these channels, necessitating frequent dredging and extension of the breakwaters, work undertaken by the Federal government, which also maintains a most comprehensive and completeystem of aids to navigation, including lighthouses and lightships, fog alarms, gas and other buoys, life-saving, storm signal and weather report stations.

It was in far later periods and in other countries that the appearance of the dogstar was regarded as the signal of insufferable heat or prevalent disease.

The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in November 1860 was the signal for the rising of the South.

This was the signal for a general coalition against Turkey; Venice, Poland and the pope allied themselves with the Austrians; Russia, Tuscany and Malta joined in the attack.

Its acceptance was however the signal for a series of massacres in almost every town of importance throughout Asia Minor, which there is but too strong evidence for suspecting were committed with the connivance of the authorities, and in which upwards of 200,000 persons are computed to have perished.