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starting signals

starting signals is the plural of starting signal.

Meaning of starting signal

Noun

starting signal (plural starting signals)

  1. A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, nowadays usually a colour-light signal.
    • As it happened, however, it was clear enough, when the platform starting-signal was lowered, for the signalman in box No. 5 to see his advance-starting signal, and he was therefore justified in allowing the train to go forward, and it was not until it had passed his box that, upon looking out, he...1882 June, “Official Reports on Recent Accidents”, in The Railway Engineer, page 157
  2. A signal to begin a race.
    • At the starting signal, pull up and back against the underside of the starting platform to get your body moving forward.2003, Ernest W. Maglischo, Swimming Fastest, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 277

Questions about starting signals

What is starting signals the plural of?
Starting signals is the plural of starting signal.

Words near starting signals in the dictionary

  1. starting points
  2. starting post
  3. starting price
  4. starting prices
  5. starting signal
  6. starting signals
  7. starting the ball rolling
  8. starting time
  9. starting times
  10. starting up
  11. starting up on

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