{ or } [ After Lieut. Samuel W. Very, who invented the system in 1877. ] (Naut.) A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance. The pistol used to fire the signal flare is called a Very pistol. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]
[じょうほう, jouhou](n) (1) (See 秘密情報) news; gossip; (military) intelligence; (2) (See 情報インフラ) information (data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.); (P)#102[Add to Longdo]