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Morse may refer to:
- Morse code, a method of coding messages into long and short beeps
- Morse, an archaic word for the clasp of a cope.
Animals
- Morse, sea-lion, in heraldry
- Morse, an archaic word for the walrus, a large aquatic mammal
- Morse, an archaic word for walrus ivory
People
- Morse (surname):
- Alan Morse, American guitarist of the rock band Spock's Beard, brother of Neal Morse
- Charles W. Morse (1858-1933), American businessman and speculator, guilty of major frauds
- Dan Morse (born 1935), American archaeologist
- Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934), American who worked for Chinese Imperial Maritime Custom Service, and scholar of China
- Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), early American geographer, author of American Gazeteer
- Marston Morse (1892-1977), American mathematician
- Neal Morse (born 1960), American singer, instrumentalist, band leader and composer, co-founder of Spock's Beard
- Richard Auguste Morse (born 1957), Puerto-Rican-born musician and manager
- Richard McGee Morse (1922–2001), scholar and professor at Columbia University
- Richard S. Morse (1911-1988), scientist and inventor of Minute Maid orange juice concentrate
- Robert Morse (born 1931), American actor
- Robert W. Morse (1921-2001), American academic and administrator
- Samuel Morse (1791–1872), co-inventor of aforementioned Morse code
- Steve Morse, American musician, member of the rock bands Dixie Dregs and Deep Purple
- Tim Morse, Chief Financial Officer of Yahoo! who in 2011 served as interim Chief Executive Officer
- Morse (given name)
- Morse Goodman (1917-1993), Bishop of Calgary, Canada
Geography
Antarctica
Canada
- Morse (provincial electoral district), Saskatchewan
- Morse, Saskatchewan, a hamlet
- Morse No. 165, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality
China
- Morse Park, Hong Kong
New Zealand
- Morse River, New Zealand
South Georgia Island
- Morse Point, South Georgia Island
United States
- Morse, Iowa, an unincorporated community
- Morse, Louisiana, a village
- Morse River (Maine)
- Morse Township, Itasca County, Minnesota
- Morse Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota
- Morse, Texas, a census-designated place
- Morse, Wisconsin, a town
- Morse (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
Outer space
- Morse (crater), on the Moon
- 8672 Morse, an asteroid
Other places
- Morse (CTA), an 'L' station on a line of the Chicago [Rapid] Transit Authority
- Morse Auditorium, a domed theater owned by Boston University
- Morse House (disambiguation), various buildings
Art, entertainment, and media
- Inspector Morse, a fictional British detective in books and on television
- Morse, French title for the Swedish horror film Let the Right One In
Businesses
- Morse Diving, a US maker of diving equipment
- Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, a defunct company in New York City
Other uses
- Morse College, a residential college at Yale University
- Morse potential, a model interatomic potential energy function
- Morse taper, a type of machine taper invented by Stephen A. Morse
- Morse theory, in mathematics, a way of analyzing the topology of a manifold by studying differentiable functions on that manifold
- USS Morse, a ferryboat used by the Union Navy in the American Civil War
- Morse chain, a chain drive with inverted teeth
See also
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