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Wireless   /wˈaɪrlɪs/   Listen
Wireless

noun
1.
Medium for communication.  Synonyms: radio, radiocommunication.
2.
Transmission by radio waves.
3.
An electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals.  Synonyms: radio, radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, tuner.
4.
A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves.  Synonym: radio.
adjective
1.
Having no wires.



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"Wireless" Quotes from Famous Books



... man continued imperturbably, "invented in 1940, two years ago, solves the wireless transmission problem, but the success of your plan depends upon your own invention—upon your straight-line drills that you say will not wander off at a tangent when they get down a few miles. And more than that, ...
— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin
... possible, and that one of them, the Tsugaru Strait, could be strewn with mines at very brief notice. The Russians dare not take that risk. Therefore Togo waited quietly at his base in the Korean Strait and on the 27th of May his scouts reported by wireless telegraphy at 5 A.M., "Enemy's fleet sighted in 203 section. He seems to be steering for the ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi
... hands of the scientist enable him accurately to forecast the weather, to anticipate and provide against storms on land and at sea, to detect seismic disturbances and warn against the dangers incident to their repetition; and no wireless telegraphy with ...
— The Colored Inventor - A Record of Fifty Years • Henry E. Baker
... McClintock, expedition of 1850; rations Mackay, Dr. F. A. Mackellar Islet Mackellar Library ..........the Hon.C.D. McLean, Dr. A. L., autopsy on the dogs; at Main Base; electrical observations; lines on 'The Blizzard'; erection of the wireless; observations regarding seals; at Aladdin's Cave; blood-pressure, observations; at Cathedral Grotto; expedition of the Eastern Coastal Party; snow-blindness; at Horn Bluff; photographs taken by; return of; the relief expedition; winter work ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson
... a wonderful chain," Mollie said, remembering her view from the Look-out, "I wish I could make something that would reach from here to my brother Dick. I wish we had wireless. I wonder if 'willing' would be any good. Have you ever played willing? We join hands and will with all our might that Dick would ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton


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