A system of communication using dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers (Morse code); also an old word for a clasp or buckle.
Named after Samuel Morse, the American inventor who developed the telegraph code in the 1830s-1840s. The older meaning 'clasp' comes from Latin 'morsus' (bite).
Samuel Morse invented Morse code to send messages through telegraph wires—'SOS' is the famous distress signal. It's wild that before radio and phones, this simple dot-dash system could send messages across oceans and save lives!
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