Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Having no wires: a wireless security system.
- adj. Chiefly British Of or relating to radio or communication by radiotelegraphy or radiotelephony.
- n. A radio telegraph or radiotelephone system.
- n. A message transmitted by wireless telegraph or telephone.
- n. Chiefly British Radio.
- transitive v. To communicate with or send communications by wireless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Not having any wires.
- adj. Of or relating to communication without a wired connection, such as by radio waves.
- n. The medium of radio communication.
- n. A radio set.
- n. Wireless connectivity to a computer network.
- v. To send a message by wireless (by radio)
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Having no wire
- n. Short for wireless telegraphy, wireless telephony, etc..
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Being or done without a wire; not requiring a wire for its operation: as, wireless telegraphy.
- n. Wireless telegraphy: as, a message by wireless.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. having no wires
- n. transmission by radio waves
- n. a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves
- n. an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals
- n. medium for communication
Etymologies
Examples
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If you have been on wireless as long as I have been you will see that major disruption in wireless is going to happen soon.
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This report would not be complete without touching on the fact that the term wireless HD is used by nearly all manufacturers of any wireless video product.
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United States wireless companies tend to use the term wireless to refer to a wide range of services while the cell phone itself is called a mobile phone, mobile,
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But while most of these shorthand terms have agreed-upon meanings, that's not the case with "4G," the term wireless carriers use for a variety of upgraded services.
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Most people listened to what they call the wireless, the radio.
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You see every warship is equipped with what they call a wireless apparatus.
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Mobile wireless is hot, with about 80% of the adults under 30 being wired into wireless.
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"I've always been a believer in wireless," Falcone said in his office 30 stories above Park Avenue in New York.
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With LightSquared, Harbinger is betting that the boom in wireless data triggered by Apple's iPhone and Google's Android operating system for mobile phones will create a shortage of spectrum - the radio frequencies needed to transmit phone calls, Web pages and YouTube videos over the air.
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In fact, so prompt was his reply that the experts in wireless telegraphy announced that, since it was impossible to send wireless messages so great a distance, Goliah was in their very midst and not on Palgrave Island.
oroboros commented on the word wireless
Sounds like the letters Y R L S.
May 17, 2008
colleen commented on the word wireless
"To send or communicate by wireless telegraphy; also, to send a wireless message to (a person). Colloq."
December 14, 2006