'Wireless' definitions:
Definition of 'wireless'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having no wires; "a wireless security system" [ant: wired]
noun
Medium for communication [syn: radio, radiocommunication, wireless]
noun
Transmission by radio waves
noun
An electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals [syn: radio receiver, receiving set, radio set, radio, tuner, wireless]
noun
A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves [syn: radio, wireless]
Definition of 'Wireless'
From: GCIDE
- Wireless \Wire"less\, a. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
- Wireless telegraphy or Wireless telegraph (Elec.), any system of telegraphy employing no connecting wire or wires between the transmitting and receiving stations.
- Note: Although more or less successful researchers were made on the subject by Joseph Henry, Hertz, Oliver Lodge, and others, the first commercially successful system was that of Guglielmo Marconi, patented in March, 1897. Marconi employed electric waves of high frequency set up by an induction coil in an oscillator, these waves being launched into space through a lofty antenna. The receiving apparatus consisted of another antenna in circuit with a coherer and small battery for operating through a relay the ordinary telegraphic receiver. This apparatus contains the essential features of all the systems now in use.
- 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Wireless'
From: GCIDE
- Wireless \Wire"less\, n. Short for Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] wirepuller
Synonyms of 'wireless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- audio-frequency,
- beam,
- broadcast,
- cabinet,
- chassis,
- communication,
- communicational,
- communications,
- console,
- electronics,
- facsimile,
- headphone,
- headset,
- heterodyne,
- high-frequency,
- housing,
- line radio,
- magnetotelephonic,
- microtelephonic,
- monotelephonic,
- newscast,
- phototelegraphic,
- radiate,
- radio,
- radio receiver,
- radio set,
- radio telescope,
- radiobroadcast,
- radiophone,
- radiophotography,
- radiotelegraphic,
- radiotelegraphy,
- radiotelephone,
- radiotelephony,
- receiver,
- receiving set,
- send,
- set,
- shortwave,
- sign off,
- sign on,
- signal,
- sportscast,
- superheterodyne,
- telecommunication,
- telecommunicational,
- telegraphic,
- telephonic,
- telephotographic,
- Teletype,
- television,
- thermotelephonic,
- transmit,
- wire wave communication,
- wired radio,
- wired wireless,
- wireless set,
- wireless telegraphy,
- wireless telephone,
- wireless telephony,
- Wirephoto