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