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单词 block signal
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block signal


noun

a fixed railroad signal governing the movements of trains entering and using a given section of track.

Origin of block signal

First recorded in 1880–85

OTHER WORDS FROM block signal

block signaling, noun

Words nearby block signal

block plane, block print, block printing, block release, block sampling, block signal, block system, block tin, block trade, block vote, blocky
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  • But this time it falls harmless as one of Chauncey Depew's periodical four-track, block-signal presidential booms.

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  • Why should he battle with the intricacies of a block-signal system when everybody else round the place has a separate bell?

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  • The passage of a law requiring the adoption of a block-signal system has been proposed to the Congress.

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