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  2. International Code of Signals - Wikipedia

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    The Medical Signal Code [13] (incorporated in the International Code of Signals since 1930) is a means of providing assistance when medical personnel are not present. Plain language is generally preferred in such cases (presumably via radiotelephone), but the various codes provide a succinct method of communicating to a doctor the nature of the ...

  3. International maritime signal flags - Wikipedia

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    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 significance.

  4. Flag signals - Wikipedia

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    The International Code of Signals [1] defines a standard set of flags and associated alphabet suitable for international use, as well as a set of standard codes. Flaghoist is also used in boat racing , to warn of impending severe weather, and other specialized applications.

  5. Maritime flag signalling - Wikipedia

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    Code numbers 1–25 represented letters of the alphabet (omitting J and with V=20 before U=21); [8] higher numbers were assigned meanings by a code book. [9] The code numbers typically would have been hoisted on the mizzenmast , one after another, preceded by the "telegraphic flag" (a red over white diagonally-split flag) [ 10 ] to show that ...

  6. Naval flag signalling - Wikipedia

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    Naval flag signalling undoubtedly developed in antiquity in order to coordinate naval action of multiple vessels. In the Peloponnesian War (431 – 401 BCE) squadrons of Athenian galleys were described by Thucydides as engaging in coordinated maneuvers which would have required some kind of communication; [1] there is no record of how such communication was done but flags would have been the ...

  7. ICS - Wikipedia

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    International Communist Seminar International Continence Society , a multidisciplinary membership society for medical professionals concerned with incontinence Irish Computer Society , the national body for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Professionals in Ireland

  8. List of international common standards - Wikipedia

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    A list of international common and basic technical standards, which have been established worldwide and are related by their frequent and widespread use. These standards are conventionally accepted as best practice and used globally by industry and organizations .

  9. Category:Signal flags - Wikipedia

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