Wireless
Wire·less
Wireless
a.
- Having no wire; (Elec.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Wireless telegraphy
- any system of telegraphy employing no connecting wire or wires between the transmitting and receiving stations.
- Wireless telephone
- an apparatus or contrivance for wireless telephony.
- Wireless telephony
- telephony without wires, usually employing electric waves of high frequency emitted from an oscillator or generator, as in wireless telegraphy. A telephone transmitter causes fluctuations in these waves, it being the fluctuations only which affect the receiver.
Wireless
n.
- Short for Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless.