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People

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Morse (surname) Morse is a surname of Flemish origin from old Frisian, and may refer to: People * Alan Morse (born 1958), American guitarist * Albert Pitts Morse (1863–1936), American entomologist * Alex Morse (born 1989), American politician * Alice Corde ...
* Morse Goodman (1917-1993), Anglican Bishop of Calgary, Canada * Morse Robb (1902–1992), Canadian inventor and entrepreneur


Geography


Antarctica

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Cape Morse Cape Morse () is a low, ice-covered cape which marks the east side of the entrance to Porpoise Bay and forms the division between Banzare Coast and Clarie Coast in Wilkes Land, Antarctica. It was delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Op ...
, Wilkes Land *
Mount Morse Mount Morse () is a mountain rising to over at the end of the ridge extending west from Mount Egerton, in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. The feature is west of the Mount Egerton summit. Mount Morse was named by the Advisory Committee on A ...
, Churchill Mountains * Morse Nunataks * Morse Spur, Victoria Land


Canada

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Rural Municipality of Morse No. 165 The Rural Municipality of Morse No. 165 ( 2016 population: ) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within Census Division No. 7 and Division No. 3. It is located in the southwest portion of the province. H ...
, Saskatchewan **
Morse, Saskatchewan Morse is a town in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. It is situated on the Trans Canada Highway near the north shore of Reed Lake. The town is named after the American scholar and inventor Samuel Morse, best known for the invention of the telegraph ...
, a town * Morse (provincial electoral district), Saskatchewan


China

* Morse Park, Hong Kong


New Zealand

* Morse River, New Zealand


South Georgia Island

* Morse Point, South Georgia Island


United States

* Morse, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Morse, Iowa, an unincorporated community *
Morse, Louisiana Morse is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 812 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area. Laid out in 1898 on land owned by J. M. Crabtree, Morse was settled by farmers f ...
, a village * Morse River (Maine) *
Morse Township, Itasca County, Minnesota Morse Township is a township in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 615 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated community of Ball Club is located within Morse Township. Geography According to the United States Census Bure ...
* Morse Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota * Morse, Texas, an unincorporated community and census-designated place * Morse, Wisconsin, a town *
Morse (community), Wisconsin Morse is an unincorporated community located in the town of Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin, United States. Morse is located along the Bad River south-southeast of Mellen. History In 1881 the newly formed Bad River Lumbering and Improvemen ...
, an unincorporated community


Outer space

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Morse (crater) Morse is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon and cannot be seen directly from the Earth. It lies about one crater diameter to the southwest of the larger Fitzgerald. To the west-northwest of Morse is Dante. This is ...
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8672 Morse __NOTOC__ Year 867 ( DCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * September 23 – Emperor Michael III is murdered, by order o ...
, an asteroid


Arts and entertainment

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Inspector Morse Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, GM, is the eponymous fictional character in the series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter. On television, he appears in the 33-episode drama series '' Inspector Morse'' (1987–2000), ...
, a fictional British detective in books by Colin Dexter and a television series * ''Morse'', French title for the Swedish horror film '' Let the Right One In'' * ''Morse'' (album), by the New Zealand musician Alastair Galbraith, 1993


Businesses

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Morse Diving Morse Diving was an American manufacturer of diving equipment founded in 1837. Morse filed for bankruptcy and Diving Equipment and Supply Company (DESCO) acquired its assets in 2016. DESCO also continues to use their original DESCO equipment to ...
, an American maker of diving equipment *
Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company The Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company was a major late 19th/early 20th century ship repair and conversion facility located in New York City. Begun in the 1880s as a small shipsmithing business known as the Morse Iron Works, the company grew to ...
, a defunct American company * C.C. Morse & Co., an American supplier of seeds and part of
Ferry-Morse Seed Company The Ferry-Morse Seed Company is a supplier of seeds, and was at one time the largest such company in the world. It is currently part of Green Garden Products, a privately owned gardening company based in Massachusetts. D.M. Ferry & Co. In 1856, ...
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Morse Theater The Morse Theater operated in the East Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_ ...
, Chicago, Illinois, U.S., from 1912 until 1930


Other uses

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Morse College Morse College is one of the fourteen residential colleges at Yale University, built in 1961 and designed by Eero Saarinen. It is adjacent to Ezra Stiles College and the two colleges share many facilities. The current Head of College is Cather ...
, a residential college at Yale University, Connecticut, U.S. * Morse High School (disambiguation) * USS ''Morse'', a ferryboat used by the Union Navy in the American Civil War *
Morse station Morse is an 'L' station on the CTA's Red Line. It is located at 1358 West Morse Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The station was formerly known as Rogers Park or Morse-Rogers Park. There is an entrance/exit on West M ...
, a rapid transit station in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. * Morse Auditorium, Boston University, Massachusetts, U.S. * Morse House (disambiguation), various buildings *
Sea-lion In heraldry, the term sea-lion (sometimes called a morse) refers to a legendary creature that has the head and upper body of a lion, but with webbed forelimbs and a fish tail. These occur most frequently as supporters, but also occur as crests a ...
, in heraldry sometimes called morse * Morse, an archaic English word for the
walrus The walrus (''Odobenus rosmarus'') is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in the f ...
** Morse, an archaic word for
walrus ivory The walrus (''Odobenus rosmarus'') is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in the fa ...
* Morse, a clasp of a
cope The cope (known in Latin as ''pluviale'' 'rain coat' or ''cappa'' 'cape') is a liturgical vestment, more precisely a long mantle or cloak, open in front and fastened at the breast with a band or clasp. It may be of any liturgical colours, litu ...
* Morse chain, a
chain drive Chain drive is a way of transmitting mechanical power from one place to another. It is often used to convey power to the wheels of a vehicle, particularly bicycles and motorcycles. It is also used in a wide variety of machines besides vehicles. ...
with inverted teeth


See also

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Morse code Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called ''dots'' and ''dashes'', or ''dits'' and ''dahs''. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one ...
, a method of coding messages into long and short beeps, invented by Samuel Morse *
Morse potential The Morse potential, named after physicist Philip M. Morse, is a convenient interatomic interaction model for the potential energy of a diatomic molecule. It is a better approximation for the vibrational structure of the molecule than the qua ...
, a model interatomic potential energy function *
Morse taper Morse may refer to: People * Morse (surname) * Morse Goodman (1917-1993), Anglican Bishop of Calgary, Canada * Morse Robb (1902–1992), Canadian inventor and entrepreneur Geography Antarctica * Cape Morse, Wilkes Land * Mount Morse, Churchi ...
, a type of machine taper invented by Stephen A. Morse *
Morse theory In mathematics, specifically in differential topology, Morse theory enables one to analyze the topology of a manifold by studying differentiable functions on that manifold. According to the basic insights of Marston Morse, a typical differenti ...
, in mathematics * Morse Farm (disambiguation) * Morse Field (disambiguation) * *
Morsi Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa al-AyyatThe spellings of his first and last names vary. survey of 14 news organizations plus Wikipedia in July 2012English-language masculine given names