What does wireless mean?

Definitions for wireless
ˈwaɪər lɪswire·less

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. radio, radiocommunication, wirelessnoun

    medium for communication

  2. wirelessnoun

    transmission by radio waves

  3. radio receiver, receiving set, radio set, radio, tuner, wirelessnoun

    an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals

  4. radio, wirelessadjective

    a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves

  5. wirelessadjective

    having no wires

    "a wireless security system"

GCIDE

  1. Wirelessadjective

    Having no wire; specif. (Elec.), designating, or pertaining to, a method of telegraphy, telephony, or other information transmisssion, in which the messages, data, etc., are transmitted through space by electric waves; as, a wireless message; a wireless network; a wireless keyboard.

Wiktionary

  1. wirelessnoun

    The medium of radio communication.

    Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.

  2. wirelessnoun

    A radio set.

    Let's switch on the wireless.

  3. wirelessnoun

    Wireless connectivity to a computer network.

    If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.

  4. wirelessadjective

    Not having any wires.

  5. wirelessadjective

    Of or relating to communication without a wired connection, such as by radio waves.

ChatGPT

  1. wireless

    Wireless refers to the transmission of data or communication without the use of physical wires or cables, rather, by using waves such as radio waves, infrared, satellite, microwave or electromagnetic waves. This communication technology is commonly used in devices such as cell phones, computers, TVs, and radios. It allows greater mobility and eliminates the need for physical connection to a network.

Wikidata

  1. Wireless

    Wireless communication is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not connected by an electrical conductor. The most common wireless technologies use electromagnetic wireless telecommunications, such as radio. With radio waves distances can be short, such as a few metres for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometres for deep-space radio communications. It encompasses various types of fixed, mobile, and portable applications, including two-way radios, cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, and wireless networking. Other examples of applications of radio wireless technology include GPS units, garage door openers, wireless computer mice, keyboards and headsets, headphones, radio receivers, satellite television, broadcast television and cordless telephones. Less common methods of achieving wireless communications include the use of light, sound, magnetic, or electric fields.

Editors Contribution

  1. wireless

    A type of technology that creates a form of telecommunications.

    Wireless internet is very helpful.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 5, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wireless in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wireless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of wireless in a Sentence

  1. Ajit Pai:

    The worst thing, going forward, would be for these false alerts to undermine public confidence in the wireless emergency alerting system because, when a real emergency hits, you want people to take that information seriously.

  2. Dan Hays:

    Indeed, we could well see the proceedings drag on into early 2017 before coming to a final conclusion, now it's up to the wireless industry to demonstrate the demand is there for low-band TV spectrum.

  3. Steve Oleson:

    How do you interconnect all those things, you don’t just blindly say you’re going to design a wireless system for the moon, you say how would they do it on Earth.

  4. Bryce Boland:

    Where there's a wire there's a way. Also true for wireless.

  5. Steve Oleson:

    We work on space crafts all day and the secondary benefit of that is we develop technologies that come back here to earth, how do you interconnect all those things, you don’t just blindly say you’re going to design a wireless system for the moon, you say how would they do it on Earth.

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