ursigram

noun

ur·​si·​gram

-səˌgram

: a message broadcast by radio or otherwise giving scientific data (as on terrestrial magnetism, radio transmission, or sunspots)

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary ursi- (from French Union Radiophonique Scientifique Internationale, organization which inaugurated the broadcast in 1930) + -gram

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