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means a code that represents letters and numbers as patterns of short and long signals (dots and dashes), originally sent as clicks, beeps, or flashes over telegraph lines

from Named for Samuel Morse, the American inventor (and portrait painter) who helped develop the telegraph in the 1830s-40s. He didn't build the code entirely alone — much of the dot-dash system is credited to his collaborator Alfred Vail — but Morse's name stuck to the invention and then to the language it spoke. The word has nothing to do with walruses or Norse, despite the family resemblance; it's purely a surname that escaped into the dictionary.