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Definition klaxon

Etymology

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A dive alert, or klaxon, aboard a World War II United States Navy submarine

From the trademark Klaxon, based on Ancient Greek ????? (kláz?, “make a sharp sound; scream”) (from Proto-Indo-European *glag- (“to make a noise, clap, twitter”), from *gal- (“to roop, scream, shout”)). The word was coined by Franklyn Hallett Lovell Jr., the founder of the Lovell-McConnell Manufacturing Co. of Newark, New Jersey, USA, which in 1908 obtained a licence of the patent to the machine generating the sound from American inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944).

Noun

klaxon (plural klaxons)

  1. A loud electric alarm or horn. [from 1908]

Verb

klaxon (third-person singular simple present klaxons, present participle klaxoning, simple past and past participle klaxoned)

  1. (intransitive) To produce a loud, siren-like wail.

Results 23 Words with the letters KLAXON

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4 letter words with the letters KLAXON 
AXON 12
KAON 9
KOAN 9
KOLA 9
LANK 10
LOAN 6
3 letter words with the letters KLAXON 
KOA 7
LAX 11
LOX 11
OAK 7
OKA 7
2 letter words with the letters KLAXON 
AL 3
AN 3
AX 9
KA 6
LA 3
LO 3
NA 3
NO 3
ON 3
OX 9

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