When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. International Code of Signals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Signals

    The International Code of Signals (INTERCO) is an international system of signals and codes for use by vessels to communicate important messages regarding safety of navigation and related matters. Signals can be sent by flaghoist, signal lamp ("blinker"), flag semaphore, radiotelegraphy, and radiotelephony. The International Code is the most ...

  3. ISO 7010 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7010

    ISO 7010 is an International Organization for Standardization technical standard for graphical hazard symbols on hazard and safety signs, including those indicating emergency exits. It uses colours and principles set out in ISO 3864 for these symbols, and is intended to provide "safety information that relies as little as possible on the use of ...

  4. GPS signals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals

    The encrypted signal is referred to as the P(Y)-code. The details of the W-code are secret, but it is known that it is applied to the P-code at approximately 500 kHz, [6] about 20 times slower than the P-code chip rate. This has led to semi-codeless approaches for tracking the P(Y) signal without knowing the W-code.

  5. International maritime signal flags - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_maritime...

    International maritime signal flags. International maritime signal flags are various flags used to communicate with ships. The principal system of flags and associated codes is the International Code of Signals. [1] Various navies have flag systems with additional flags and codes, and other flags are used in special uses, or have historical ...

  6. ANSI Z535 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_Z535

    Website. webstore.ansi.org /standards /nema /ansiz5352022-2475871. ANSI Z535 are American-developed standards designed to improve the identification of potential hazards to workers and/or property. The identifications are called Hazardous Communication (HazCom). ANSI Z535 sets the design and application standards for all HazCom used across ...

  7. Pound sign - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_sign

    The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England. The same symbol is used for other currencies called pound, such as the Egyptian and Syrian pounds.

  8. Morse code - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

    This Morse key was originally used by Gotthard railway, later by a shortwave radio amateur [2] Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. [3][4] Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the early developers ...

  9. Maritime flag signalling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime_flag_signalling

    Maritime flag signalling. Maritime flag signalling, generally flaghoist signalling, is the principal means other than radio by which ships communicate to each other or to shore (distinguished from flags showing nationality, ownership, or (for naval vessels) organizational status). Virtually all signalling by non-naval vessels is now organized ...