Semaphore
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Semaphore may be:
Optical-telegraph systems:
- Semaphore line, a system of long-distance communication based on towers with moving arms
- Flag semaphore system
- Railway semaphore signal for railroad traffic control
Other:
- Traffic semaphore, another name for automotive traffic lights based on their early resemblance to railway semaphores
- Turning semaphore, retractable semaphores on automobiles from the 1920s to 1950s
- Semaphore (programming), in computer science, a mechanism for supporting mutual exclusion in concurrent programs
- Semaphore, South Australia, a historic seaside community in southern Australia
- Semaphore railway line, Adelaide, a closed railway line in Adelaide South Australia
- Semaphore (album), a 1998 album by the band Fridge
- Semaphore, fictional professor in Cubitus comic strips or Wowser cartoons
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