1) Apparatus 2) Communication means at sea 3) Flagging conversation 4) French word used in English 5) Setup 6) Signal flag 7) Signaling apparatus 8) To signal using a semaphore 9) Visual signaling apparatus
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1) Signal
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[programming] In computer science, particularly in operating systems, a semaphore is a variable or abstract data type that is used for controlling access, by multiple processes, to a common resource in a parallel programming or a multi user environment. A useful way to think of a semaphore is as a record of how many units of a particular re...
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• (n.) A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.
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method of visual signaling, usually by means of flags or lights. Before the invention of the telegraph, semaphore signaling from high towers was ... [5 related articles]
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Visual signalling code in which the relative positions of two movable pointers or hand-held flags stand for different letters or numbers. The system is used by ships at sea...
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Both an early form of digital communications and a software mechanism for arbitrating access to a shared resource to avoid contradictory states (in the sense of FSA). Software mechanism devised by Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002).
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Sem'a·phore noun [ Greek
sh^ma a sign +
fe`rein to bear: confer French
sémaphore .] A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.
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Semaphore is a visual form of communication using flags, hence a semaphore is a device in which a flag or board may be raised or lowered so as to exhibit signals to convey information from a distance, such as old-fashioned railway signals.
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mechanical signal with a moving arm.
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A type of signal that has a moving arm; any signalling using semaphores.
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n] - an apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms 2. [v] - send signals by or as if by semaphore 3. [v] - convey by semaphore, of information
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semaphore, semaphoric, semiphorical, semaphorically 1. A visual system for sending information by means of two flags that are held one in each hand, using an alphabetic code based on the position of the signaler's arms. 2. Mechanical signaling device: a signaling device for sending information over distances using mechanically operated arms or fla...
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noun an apparatus for visual signaling with lights or mechanically moving arms
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Visual signalling code in which the relative positions of two movable pointers or hand-held flags stand for different letters or numbers. The system is used by ships at sea and for railway signals
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a lock mechanism that works per process context, see SMPSynchronisation
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