dash

1. The longer of the two signal elements in Morse code, created by closing an electrical circuit with a mechanical key for a relatively long period of time. An audible dash is a long click or buzz, known as a dah to radio telegraph operators, and is graphically represented as a short horizontal line —. See also dot, Morse code, and telegraph. 2. Thomas Alva Edison Jr. (1876–1935) was nicknamed “Dash” by his father, Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), the “Wizard of Menlo Park,” who invented such devices as the

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• High Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI)
• high speed
• high-speed channel (H channel)
• High-Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD)
• High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)
• High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)
• high-tier
• high voltage (HV)
• HiperACCESS (High performance radio ACCESS)
• HiperLAN/1 (High performance radio Local Area Network version 1)
• HiperLAN2 (High performance radio Local Area Network version 2)
• HiperMAN (High performance radio Metropolitan Area Network)
• HIPPI (HIgh Performance Parallel Interface)
• Hockham, George
• hold
• hold
• Holmes, E.T.
• home page
• home page
• HomePlug
• home run
• hook switch
• hoot
• hoot and holler
• hoot ’n’ holler