Morse

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Morse may refer to:

• Morse code, a method of coding messages into long and short beeps
• Morse, an archaic word for the clasp of a cope

Animals

• sea-lion, in heraldry
• Morse, an archaic word for the walrus, a large aquatic mammal
  • Morse, an archaic word for walrus ivory

People

• Morse (surname):
  • Alan Morse, American guitarist of the rock band Spock's Beard, brother of Neal Morse
  • Charles W. Morse (1858-1933), American businessman and speculator, guilty of major frauds
  • Dan Morse (born 1935), American archaeologist
  • David Morse (disambiguation)
  • Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934), American who worked for Chinese Imperial Maritime Custom Service, and scholar of China
  • Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), early American geographer, author of American Gazetteer
  • Marston Morse (1892-1977), American mathematician
  • Michael Morse, baseball player
  • Neal Morse (born 1960), American singer, instrumentalist, band leader and composer, co-founder of Spock's Beard
  • Richard Auguste Morse (born 1957), Puerto-Rican-born musician and manager
  • Richard McGee Morse (1922–2001), scholar and professor at Columbia University
  • Richard S. Morse (1911-1988), scientist and inventor of Minute Maid orange juice concentrate
  • Robert Morse (born 1931), American actor
  • Robert W. Morse (1921-2001), American academic and administrator
  • Samuel Morse (1791–1872), co-inventor of aforementioned Morse code
  • Sara E. Morse (1871-1933), American school superintendent
  • Steve Morse, American musician, member of the rock bands Dixie Dregs and Deep Purple
  • Tim Morse, Chief Financial Officer of Yahoo!
  • William M. Morse (1826-1875), American surveyor and politician
• Morse (given name)
  • Morse Goodman (1917-1993), Bishop of Calgary, Canada

Geography

Other places

• Morse (CTA), an 'L' station on a line of the Chicago [Rapid] Transit Authority
• Morse Auditorium, a domed theater owned by Boston University
• Morse House (disambiguation), various buildings

Art, entertainment, and media

• Inspector Morse, a fictional British detective in books and on television
• Morse, French title for the Swedish horror film Let the Right One In

Businesses

• Morse Diving, a US maker of diving equipment
• Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, a defunct company in New York City
• C.C. Morse & Co., supplier of seeds

Other uses

• Morse College, a residential college at Yale University
• Morse potential, a model interatomic potential energy function
• Morse taper, a type of machine taper invented by Stephen A. Morse
• Morse theory, in mathematics, a way of analyzing the topology of a manifold by studying differentiable functions on that manifold
• USS Morse, a ferryboat used by the Union Navy in the American Civil War
• Morse chain, a chain drive with inverted teeth

See also

• Morse Farm (disambiguation)
• Morse Field (disambiguation)
• Justice Morse (disambiguation)