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  • abbreviation high fidelity

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  • If you feel that your readers are so dim as to miss the gag, then, for heaven's sake, why not write something like, "WiFi, a pun on 'HiFi,' is a marketing term for the 802. 11b wireless standard, which allows computers to connect to the Internet at high speeds from distances of up to 300 feet."

    Boing Boing: June 1, 2003 - June 7, 2003 Archives 2003

  • If HiFi is what you’re after, you’re wasting your time sitting in pretty much any car.

    Rigging up your car to use an iPod | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • The study describes evaluation of the new more affordable method, called the HiFi Blood 96, which types blood with DNA testing in a high-speed automated procedure.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The study describes evaluation of the new more affordable method, called the HiFi Blood 96, which types blood with DNA testing in a high-speed automated procedure.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • UPDATE: Just called HiFi and confirmed: Saturday is the Metro location's last day in business; the other two locations remain open.

    unknown title 2009

  • UPDATE: Just called HiFi and confirmed: Saturday is the Metro location's last day in business; the other two locations remain open.

    unknown title 2009

  • UPDATE: Just called HiFi and confirmed: Saturday is the Metro location's last day in business; the other two locations remain open.

    unknown title 2009

  • UPDATE: Just called HiFi and confirmed: Saturday is the Metro location's last day in business; the other two locations remain open.

    unknown title 2009

  • WiFi is derived from high fidelity, but if WiFi * means* "wireless fidelity" then it means precisely nothing, because "wireless fidelity" is a nonsense phrase whose only meaning comes from the fact that you get a pun on "HiFi" when you shorten it.

    - Boing Boing 2005

  • VHS "HiFi" has normal linear tracks (for playback on non HiFi players) and separate HiFi stereo tracks encoded FM with the video.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

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