tele-, tel-, telo-, -telic, -telical

Obtaining knowledge of distant events allegedly without use of normal sensory mechanisms.

1. A discredited, superstitious belief that offspring bred from one sire may also inherit characteristics from another sire to which the dam had been successfully bred on a previous occasion.
2. The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father.
3. A supposed influence of female's first mate on offspring of her later matings with other males.

A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch or communication; literally, “written from a distance”.

1. An apparatus for transmitting messages to a distance, usually by signs of some kind.

Devices for this purpose have been in use from ancient times, but the name was first applied to that system invented by Chappe in France in 1792, consisting of an upright post with movable arms, the signals being made by various positions of the arms according to a pre-arranged code.

Applied to various other devices subsequently used, operating by movable disks, shutters, etc., flashes of light, movements in a column of liquid, sounds of bells, horns, etc., or other means. Now rare in this sense, such contrivances being usually called semaphores or signalling apparatus.

2. In full, electric (or magnetic) telegraph: An apparatus consisting of a transmitting instrument (transmitter), a receiving instrument (receiver), and a line or wire of any length connecting these, along which an electric current from a battery or other source passes, the circuit being made and broken by working the transmitter, so as to produce movements, as of a needle or pointer, in the receiver, which indicate letters, etc., either according to a code of signs, or by pointing to characters upon a dial.

In some forms the receiver works so as to print or trace the message upon a prepared strip of paper.

A system of symbols used for transmitting telegraph messages; such as, the Morse code; where each character is represented by a group of long and short electrical pulses or pulses of opposing polarities, or by time gaps of equal length in which a signal is either present or absent.

1. Someone who telegraphs a message or news.
2. The sender of a telegram.

1. Relating to or transmitted by telegraph.
2. Having the style of a telegram with many short words left out.
3. Concise or elliptical in spoken or written expressions.

In a short and concise manner.

Someone who transmits messages or signals to a distant receiver.

1. The art or science of constructing or using telegraphs.
2. The working of a telegraph or telegraphs.
3. Communication over a distance by means of code signals which are composed of electrical or electromagnetic pulses and that are sent over wires or by radio.

The use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, professional health-related education, public health, and health administration.

An instrument for recording the pressure of a head of water or other liquid.

A flower having both gynaecium and androecium; hermaphroditic flowers.