D defs.my
Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Wireless

· Wire·less · IPA /ˈwaɪ(jə)ɹ.ləs/
01 a. Having no wire;
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    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.
02 n. Short for Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless.
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    Short for Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony, etc.; as, to send a message by wireless. See: Wireless telegraphy, Wireless telephony